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<blockquote data-quote="vvvvvvv" data-source="post: 2085220" data-attributes="member: 5151"><p><a href="http://www.openmarket.org/2013/01/28/180-billion-wasted-on-head-start-progressives-seek-to-ban-private-schools-and-homeschooling/" target="_blank">http://www.openmarket.org/2013/01/28/180-billion-wasted-on-head-start-progressives-seek-to-ban-private-schools-and-homeschooling/</a></p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">The Head Start program has now wasted $180 billion, but it has no lasting effect on student achievement. In the long run, children who participate in the taxpayer-funded program do no better than similarly situated children who dont. But even in the short-run, the benefits of participation are virtually non-existent...</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Increasing numbers of secular, educated parents are choosing to homeschool their children, due to the notoriously inadequate education system in places like New York City, where municipal governments spend colossal amounts of money on education, with very poor results for students. </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">...</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Growing public disenchantment with dysfunctional public schools and desire for change has triggered a backlash among progressive legal scholars and academics who do not want children to be able to escape failing public schools. For example, a prominent progressive law dean and law professor, Erwin Chemerinsky, is urging the courts and lawmakers to ban private schools and homeschooling in order to force everyone to attend the public schools. In his view, this is the only way to desegregate the schools and achieve racial and social equality. </p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vvvvvvv, post: 2085220, member: 5151"] [url]http://www.openmarket.org/2013/01/28/180-billion-wasted-on-head-start-progressives-seek-to-ban-private-schools-and-homeschooling/[/url] [INDENT]The Head Start program has now wasted $180 billion, but it has no lasting effect on student achievement. In the long run, children who participate in the taxpayer-funded program do no better than similarly situated children who dont. But even in the short-run, the benefits of participation are virtually non-existent... Increasing numbers of secular, educated parents are choosing to homeschool their children, due to the notoriously inadequate education system in places like New York City, where municipal governments spend colossal amounts of money on education, with very poor results for students. ... Growing public disenchantment with dysfunctional public schools and desire for change has triggered a backlash among progressive legal scholars and academics who do not want children to be able to escape failing public schools. For example, a prominent progressive law dean and law professor, Erwin Chemerinsky, is urging the courts and lawmakers to ban private schools and homeschooling in order to force everyone to attend the public schools. In his view, this is the only way to desegregate the schools and achieve racial and social equality. [/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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