Closing a school can tear the fabric of a community, create job insecurity for educators and force families to make tough decisions about what’s next for their children. But if it’s done the right way, it can help students get significantly better results. A new study of closures and charter[Read More…]
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Mr. Gibbons’ Report Card: Winners, losers, and armchair quarterbacks
Jerusha Conner Relying on an outdated report to criticize charter schools in New Orleans is bad enough, but Jerusha Conner, an an associate professor of education at Villanova University has this notion that competition between charter schools and public schools will help some students become “winners” and leave others to remain “losers.”[Read More…]