- Jan 2024
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www.wnycstudios.org www.wnycstudios.org
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As unregulated as these programs are, that minimal data is something we have access to. There's been great coverage of this, including a recent story in The Wall Street Journal by an education reporter named Matt Barnum, that what we are seeing in state after state is that in the early phases of these new programs, that the parents who are most likely to take advantage of them are not the parents of low-income and minority kids in the public schools despite that being the big sales pitch, that instead they are affluent parents whose kids already attended private school. When lawmakers are making the case for these programs, they are making the Moms for Liberty arguments.
Benefits of state-based school choice programs are going to affluent parents
The kinds are already going to private schools; the money isn't going to low-income parents. As a result, private schools are emboldened to raise tuition.
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- Jan 2021
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www.businessinsider.com www.businessinsider.com
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Musaddique. S. (2020) Private tuition is booming in the UK during COVID-19. We spoke to leading tutors about why online learning is here to stay. Buisness Insider. Retrieved from: https://www.businessinsider.com/private-tuition-is-thriving-with-schools-closed-during-covid-19-2020-7?r=US&IR=T
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- Nov 2018
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robinderosa.net robinderosa.net
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OER matters not because textbooks matter. OER matters because it highlights an example of how something central to our public missions, the transfer of our foundational disciplinary knowledge from one generation of scholars to the next, has been co-opted by private profit. And OER is not a solution, but a systemic shift from private to public architecture in how we deliver learning.
I love this framing of OER as public infrastructure to facilitate the transfer of knowledge. I think it is not only generational, but also more broadly to the public. OER use is not limited to just students within our institutions, but are available freely and openly more broadly to the public. To anyone. I think we need to make that point more widely known. Every OER that is made freely available is making knowledge more open to not only students in our institutions, but to anyone, anywhere. It truly is "public" infrastructure.
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- Apr 2016
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philosophersforchange.org philosophersforchange.org
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Education is no longer viewed as a public good but a private right, just as critical thinking is devalued as a fundamental necessity for creating an engaged and socially responsible populace.
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- Oct 2013
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rhetoric.eserver.org rhetoric.eserver.org
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et it is not to be concealed that there are some, who from certain notions of their own, disapprove of this almost public mode of instruction.
examining public vs. private education: an ongoing argument. wonder if we ever might like to try something else.
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