Discuss the concern of stratification in the context of school vouchers.
What will be an ideal response?
The fundamental question of school vouchers is whether they increase stratification in education. One fundamental goal of American education has been its attempt to promote social homogeneity and integration. If a voucher plan did not cover the full price of a child’s education, many low-income parents would not be able to make up the difference between the value of the voucher and the tuition at a private school. Vouchers may simply end up subsidizing middle-class parents without improving the quality of education for the poor, who need that improvement the most. A voucher plan might well undo the racial integration that resulted from years of effort and policymaking. Voucher plans would tend to benefit children who would probably succeed anyway and it might divert funds from schools and children who need the most help.
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A) policy directed at more than one person. B) course of action to solve a problem. C) set of rules and regulations issued by a government agency. D) course of action by a political party. E) choice that government makes in response to an issue.
According to Jervis, which of the following has been posited as an explanation for the absence of wars between democracies?
a. The dispersal of power within democracies makes it easy for groups to block war. b. Democracies share norms and values that encourage peaceful dispute resolution. c. Democracies are more transparent than nondemocracies, making it easier to avoid spirals of conflict. d. Leaders of democratic nations are careful before choosing to fight a war because they want to stay in office. e. Democracies operate from a position of peace