Ashley Rogers Berner doesn’t like the term “school choice.”
The director of the Institute for Education Policy at Johns Hopkins University, she thinks that language presumes too much about how education should be delivered in a free country. Sure, it seems to suggest, there are options out there — Catholic schools, charter schools, Montessori schools, take your pick — but the default is the local public school into which families are zoned. Anything else is just an anomaly.
Many other nations, including some that have been operating schools for much longer than the United States, don’t see it that way.
