Question

Gutek, Levine, and Ornstein, Foundations of Education, Chapters 1-6.

Discuss the pros and cons concerning:

School vouchers

Virtual schools

Answer 1

School vouchers are designed to give parents freedom of choosing a private school for the children.In this specific category, parents can choose to useful public funding or partial public funding or set aside any sort of public funding for their education. In this type of a specific program funds are penned by a School district and usually allocated to the family in form of vouchers to pay the tuition fee.

Pros

It provides better architecture of providing fee to the institutions. This type of approach also helps in reduction of corruption as the funds are being paid in form of vouchers. It also helps parents to ease the process of paying the Institutions as they don't have to manage funds but have to provide voucher to the Institutions which is much easier.

Cons

This type of approach requires extra paperwork and needs a proper system to be carried out.sometimes delay happen because of the increase number of verification process is involved in creating a voucher. Processing of the funds is also very slow as first leave out it has to be generated then to be processed by the institutions. All browsers are also and issue as verification process is very long and sometimes the details are forged.

Virtual School

As Technology is advancing, virtual schools are being prominent and available at each and every location. Virtual schools does not have any physical place to access but best schools cues online resources.

Pros

These schools does not require any physical place to provide education but they use internet as a main tool for provision of the education services. Prices are very low as compared to the traditional teaching methods.

Cons

As there is no physical access to the institution level of interaction between the teacher and student is done. Problem solving if the specific teaching program is also very less as compared to the traditional teaching programs. Custom solutions are not available or available on demand which take very much time which is very quick in the traditional approaches for teaching.