The next education frontier: Classroom choice

Little birds are flying around everywhere these days, tweeting "school choice" as the last hope for education reform.  We find it praised on the editorial pages of Education Next, in a book by DC-based self-styled education policy expert Chester Finn, and by Donald J. Trump, the next president of the United States. "Choice" was the slogan for a question on the November ballot in Massachusetts asking voters to loosen the cap on charter schools in the state. (It went down in flames).  But "

Little birds are flying around everywhere these days, tweeting "school choice" as the last hope for education reform.  We find it praised on the editorial pages of Education Next, in a book by DC-based self-styled education policy expert Chester Finn, and by Donald J. Trump, the next president of the United States. "Choice" was the slogan for a question on the November ballot in Massachusetts asking voters to loosen the cap on charter schools in the state. (It went down in flames).  But "school…