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The Impact of School Choice and Community: In the Interest of Families and Schoolsreviewed by Charles L. Glenn - 1997 Title: The Impact of School Choice and Community: In the Interest of Families and Schools Author(s): Claire Smrekar Publisher: State University of New York Press, Albany ISBN: 0791426149, Pages: 204, Year: 1995 Search for book at Amazon.com Fundamental to the case for allowing
parents–and teachers–to choose is a belief that schools
can be distinctive in ways that do not simply reflect the social
class of their pupils or the resources provided, and that such
distinctiveness can be of educational value. If effective schools
are characterized by clearly defined missions, and if the
professionalization of teaching requires that teachers be allowed
to make important decisions about how to educate (as the 1986
Carnegie Report A Nation Prepared urged), then it seems to follow
that effective schools will come to differ through a school-level
process of mission-definition. If the school is freely chosen by
parents, there is all the more scope to differ from other
schools.
Not a great deal has been written about how schools become
distinctive through the process of parental choice, or even about
the dimensions of school distinctiveness. There is of course an
extensive literature describing bad schools, especially those in
the inner city; the intention of these studies, by and large,... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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