Disparate Reactions to the Stanford New School and Milwaukee Vouchers
by Frederick M. Hess • Apr 28, 2010 at 9:37 am
Cross-posted from Education Week
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Some readers challenged me last week on an intriguing question: Why did I react so differently to the underwhelming findings on the performance of Milwaukee voucher students and to the Ravenswood City school board's effort to shutter the Stanford Graduate School of Education's charter school for mediocre performance? As you may recall, I casually brushed off the Milwaukee voucher results as telling us nothing important butsuggested that the performance of Stanford New School raises real questions about the "expertise" of Stanford's big-name pedagogues.
A few eagle-eyed commenters asked if this isn't a case of double standards or even blatant hypocrisy (see, for
