EDUCATION: "Shouldn’t more choice be the default?"

"These mixed results [on the outcomes of charters schools] might imply that advocates of school choice are overselling: charters (and private school vouchers) have positive effects in some cases, but they are far from a panacea.
    "That perspective, however, implicitly takes traditional public schools as the default and ignores a crucial consideration: many parents and students seem to value the choice that charters and vouchers provide, even when outcomes like test scores do not show obvious improvement.
    "So absent strong evidence that school choice has non‐​trivial negatives, shouldn’t more choice be the default?"

~ Jeffrey Miron + Jacob Winter, from their article 'Mixed Evidence on Charter Schools'