Comments on: Taking the Public out of Public Schools http://jaypgreene.com/2008/07/01/taking-the-public-out-of-public-schools/ With Help From Some Friends Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:43:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: News: Accountability and Status Quo Apology « The Voice for School Choice http://jaypgreene.com/2008/07/01/taking-the-public-out-of-public-schools/#comment-1373 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:57:54 +0000 http://jaypgreene.wordpress.com/?p=241#comment-1373 [...] 15, 2008 · No Comments Economist Jay P. Greene notes that public schools tend to offer less disclosure and transparency than private ones (though [...]

]]> By: Greg Forster http://jaypgreene.com/2008/07/01/taking-the-public-out-of-public-schools/#comment-1081 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:48:56 +0000 http://jaypgreene.wordpress.com/?p=241#comment-1081 Vouchers make schools more accountable, not less. The most effective accountability is to be able to leave a school that isn’t serving you and find a school that will. Without vouchers, there’s not much you can do to fight the system.

As for data being less available after NCLB, that’s exactly the reverse of the truth. NCLB requires states to make a huge amount of data available that they didn’t even have to collect before, much less make it available. You can’t fight them to get your hands on data that they don’t even collect! And the system was always hostile to releasing information – all bureaucracies are. What you’re really proposing here is a policy of appeasement: stop antagonizing the bureaucracy by reuqiring it to perform its job, and maybe in return it will begrudgingly agree to give us some of the information that it’s legally required to release (under FOIA laws if nothing else).

]]> By: illusionsformoney http://jaypgreene.com/2008/07/01/taking-the-public-out-of-public-schools/#comment-1048 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:04:39 +0000 http://jaypgreene.wordpress.com/?p=241#comment-1048 I’ve always been against vouchers and I think the idea of losing accountability is only one part of the issue. Just because you can’t obtain the data doesn’t mean you can’t hold the schools accountable. It also was probably easier to get some of this information before NCLB, mainly guessing there, but there wasn’t as big a stigma on certain data before NCLB. It just was what it was, even if it was scarring.

Just to the above commenter, Public schooling is not a joke. Such a broad statement. There is just a serious dilemma on how good public schooling can be more widespread. A lot of times the issues don’t lie with schools alone.

]]> By: CM'Blog http://jaypgreene.com/2008/07/01/taking-the-public-out-of-public-schools/#comment-1047 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:52:19 +0000 http://jaypgreene.wordpress.com/?p=241#comment-1047 Hi. For once, I feel someone has finally said it right. Public Schooling is a joke. Anyway, I’m looking to build up incoming links for my blog. Would you like to exchange blogroll links with me? If yes, please visit: http://greatdebater.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/why-i-blog/ and leave your URL there. The purpose of my blog is to generate debate on anything and everything that matters.

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