In “Opening Doors for School Choice,” Frederick Hess offers valuable prudential, diagnostic, and prescriptive insights for education reformers and parental-choice advocates at what many, including myself, have lauded as a revolutionary moment in the history of US K-12 education policy.
To begin, he cautions against employing the rhetoric of revolution, warning that “many apolitical parents who just want good options for their kids may be alienated by reformers who seem like revolutionaries.” As he reminds reformers, most American parents—at least those with the means to vote with their feet and move to good school districts—are generally happy with their kids’ public schools. Perhaps he’s right. Personally, I’ve often wondered what my family in suburban Kansas City would think of my Twitter feed.
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Nicole Stelle Garnett is the John P. Murphy Foundation professor of law at University of Notre Dame and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
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