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Article: The new school: charter schools offer the benefits of both public schools and private schools.(Cover Story)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- September 15, 1997
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THE fast-spreading charter-school movement is challenging three hoary axioms about American education: that only private schools can elude bureaucratic micromanagement, that worthwhile school choice can be achieved only through vouchers, and that the left-leaning politics of public education have barred the schoolhouse door against any encroachment by entrepreneurial capitalism.
No, this familiar trio hasn't been vanquished, and this is no time to relax. But all three assumptions are in retreat before what some are calling the "reinvention of public education" -- a battery of new sorts of schools and educational practices, among which charter schools are the most ...