Tag: Charters

• Great Hearts: Hey! The wealthy need segregated charters too!?

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  September 30, 2012

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  Charter Schools, School Finance

  I noted neither a critical or opposing view in the first MYSA article, but David Safier, an Arizona blogger, has plenty of information on Great Hearts, a charter seeking to open schools in San Antonio. Is Great Hearts banking on segregation in their charters? Thanks to Karen from Houston for sending along the info for…

• Bad Apples?: Accountability, AYP, and Cheating

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  August 10, 2012

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  Accountability, High-Stakes Testing

  I gave another interview on the cheating scandal in El Paso (1,2,3) yesterday. The question that often arises is this only a case of bad apples? The research literature has long shown serial dishonesty in Texas Education Agency’s (TEA) publicly reported dropout and graduation numbers (See for example IDRA; Losen, Orfield, & Balfanz, 2006; Vasquez Heilig & Darling-Hammond) suggesting…

• Is choice a panacea? An analysis of black secondary student attrition from KIPP, other private charters and urban districts

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  July 30, 2012

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  Charter Schools, KIPP

  Vasquez Heilig, J., Williams, A., McNeil, L & Lee, C. (2011). Is choice a panacea? An analysis of black secondary student attrition from KIPP, other private charters and urban districts. Berkeley Review of Education, 2(2), 153-178. Public concern about pervasive inequalities in traditional public schools, combined with growing political, parental, and corporate support, has created the expectation that…