Public schools: Not as good as you think?
The conventional wisdom has been that affluent neighborhoods with well-educated parents also have outstanding public schools. But a new book casts substantial doubt on that proposition. The book, “Not as Good as You Think: Why the Middle Class Needs School Choice,” was produced by the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy and can be downloaded from its website, www.PacificResearch.org. Here to talk about it is one of its authors, Dr. Vicki Murray, a Senior Policy Fellow for Education Studies at the Pacific Research Institute.
