Is There a Role of Choice in School Choice?

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i think it's one of these debates that's become very polarized. And i mean, no one realistically thinks we're going to have nothing but private schools. There is some pretty good evidence for the fact that having choice improves performance within the public schools. The real trick here would be to be in favour of more school choice, and even something like a voucher or back pack system, but then make it much more progressive. I imagine it. Well, imagine if arizona roten to sancate seven thousand dollars,. What if they said, it's seven thousand dollars, but for kids who are eligible for free school mealsi 12 thousand? Ah, and so i think a weighted

Shermer and Reeves discuss: • comparison method: U.S. vs. other WERID countries • education • work/labor market • family • marriage • Divorce/custody/spousal support/child support • intersectionality I: Black boys and men vs. White boys and men • intersectionality II: poor boys and men vs. middle class/upper class boys and men • What is a man? (nature and nurture in the making of a male) • what the political left gets wrong about boys and men • what the political right gets wrong about boys and men • solutions: red shirt boys early; men in STEM and HEAL • fatherhood as an independent institution

Richard V. Reeves is a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, where he directs the Boys and Men Project and holds the John C. and Nancy D. Whitehead Chair. He is the author of Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It(2017) and a regular contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic.