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Why The Middle Class Needs School Choice

Even though public opinion about the job that schools are doing is improving, confidence in our public schools is still low. Several “report cards” on school achievement have exposed the fact that what may appear on the surface to be a good school is really one that is coasting on past laurels. 

If readers think it is just parents at low SES schools that need choice, think again.  This article from the Harvard Education Letter is interesting!

Not at Good as You Think: Why The Middle Class Needs School Choice, an eye-opening book by Lance Izumi, Vicki Murray, and Rachel Chaney, has been made into a documentary.  The trailer can be viewed below.

Not as Good as You Think: The Myth of the Middle Class School, according to the filmakers, shatters the myth that “good” schools are found in “nice” neighborhoods.