Tag: At-risk students

• “Diversity is Hard”: Will Charter Schools In Your Locale Choose Equity?

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  November 11, 2013

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  Charter Schools, Dropout, KIPP

  I am not of the ilk that charters are all bad news (See all of Cloaking Inequity’s post on charter schools here). As I have mentioned previously, I am a charter school parent, currently serve on a charter school board, and was an instructor at an Aspire charter school. I realize that I have prominent friends and…

  

• Charter Schools, Dropout, and At-Risk Students

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  October 31, 2012

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  Charter Schools, Dropout

  An “oldie, but a goodie” article from the New York Times about charter schools and at-risk students. An excerpt: … Julian Vasquez Heilig, a professor at the University of Texas College of Education who studies how incentive systems affect student achievement, said his research had found a higher dropout rate for all charters — not just those that…

• At-risk student averse: Risk management and accountability

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  July 29, 2012

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  Accountability, African Americans, High-Stakes Testing, Latina/os

  Vasquez Heilig, J., Young, M. & Williams, A. (2012). At-risk student averse: Risk management and accountability. Journal of Educational Administration, 50(5). The prevailing theory of action underlying accountability is that holding schools and students accountable will increase educational output. While accountability’s theory of action intuitively seemed plausible, at the point of No Child Left Behind’s national implementation, little empirical…