Sol Stern’s City Journal piece, School Choice Isn’t Enough (to transform schools), has set off a debate in the Journal. (It set off discussion in my comments, too.) Jay Greene argues that school choice and instructional improvement are complementary not contradictory.
. . . while choice is not the “panacea†claimed by scholars John Chubb and Terry Moe in a regrettable moment of rhetorical excess, it has produced significant improvement in public schools. And it has done so despite the very limited nature of incentive reforms adopted to date. Nothing in Stern’s argument undermines the belief that incentive and instructional reforms are complementary. Stern’s best chance of getting and, what’s more important, keeping the instructional reforms that he desires is through incentive reforms. I would urge Stern and his fellow dissidents to restore the truce, because together, I think, we have the best chance of reforming public education.
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