Abstract
We Americans seem prone to bandwagon onto fads, particularly now that reforming education has become a national priority. Unfortunately, many of those fads now caroming across our continent are outright frauds; some are fantasies, even fictions. Even more unfortunately, many are undermining our public schools, teachers, kids and communities, and pillaging our tax dollars in the process.
This book analyzes each major reform--No Child Left Behind, Common Core State Standards, grading schools, evaluating teachers, failing students, vouchers, charters, online virtual charters-- and finds them seriously wanting. We conclude with reforms that work actually helping teachers, kids, parents and communities.
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- „... Assessment of Educational Progress,from 2003 to 2009, charters have never outperformed public schools.Nor ...” „... Productive EfficiencySo far, results for charters are inferior to public schools.These studies indicate ...” „... Funds for Public SchoolsThis point refers to funding being transferred to charter schools ...”
- „... criterion certainly is promotedby virtual charters.HOW FARE THE VIRTUAL CHARTER SCHOOLS?Not well. In ...” „... ELEVENVirtual Charter Schools: Privatizationon SteroidsWhat we’re talking about here is the ...” „... UniversityINTRODUCTION AND ORGANIZATIONThe virtual charter school, the most recent darling of the largely conser-vative ...”
- „... seem that gaming the systemis occurring?This is a miracle?HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMIES CHARTER SCHOOLS“All ...” „... theory of vouchers and charters is that competition will causeachievement to go up in public schools, and ...” „... program. As aresult, out of 70 charters now operating in the N.O. RSD, 5 are rated as“B” schools, 5 are ...”
- „... alternatives, includ-ing the following:• School vouchers• Charter schools• Tax-credit scholarships, in which ...” „... savings accounts—parents withdraw their child from apublic district or charter school and receive a ...” „... Cana-dian schools were sensitive to competition exerted by charters, theirAmerican counterparts were ...”
- „... AYP).Restructuring—This is turning a school into a charter (to be discussedin chapter 8), turning it over to public or ...” „... achievement and close achievement gaps, and by expandingsupport for high-performing public charter schools ...” „... schools, although no research exists to support their superiority.Chapter 9 on charters will investigate ...”
- „... produce expected results• Online virtual charter schools—produce dreadful academic resultsand huge dropout ...” „... Fiction? 939 Charter Schools: A Form of Privatization 10910 Vouchers: Another Form of Privatization 12511 ...” „... Virtual Charter Schools: Privatization on Steroids 14112 Miracles (or Really, Mirages) for the Gullible ...”
- „... “virtual charter schools,”which have successfully generated large profits since they do not have tohave ...” „... thatcrazy.—Arthur ShapiroAt the more than 5,500 charter schools nationwide, private manage-ment companies—some of ...” „... establish acomplete, separate charter school system statewide responsible only tothe governor. This by ...”
- „... to privatizing schemes such as vouchers and charters, supposedly toimprove the public schools.Since ...” „... QUESTIONThe attempt to improve schools by testing kids and then rating schoolshasn’t improved the schools. But ...” „... SEVENEvaluating vs. Grading(Really Rating) SchoolsNo nation with successful schools ignores ...”
- „... , so, naturally, I hung around the secondary schools.Before I could act in my first couple of months ...” „... PRACTICES TO FINESSE FAILUREOrganizational/StructuralSize of SchoolsWe deal with this more fully in chapter ...” „... learning communities (SLCs),also called house plans, schools-within-schools, or halls is one mod-el that ...”