Major Newspapers Ignore National Study Showing Charters No Better Than Public Schools
It took the Washington Post almost 6 months and the New York Times 10 months to report any news of the national study in 2009 that showed the Obama charter solution as a policy loser even before it got steamrolling. It has rolled on, anyway. It will be interesting to see how long it will take the most recent large-scale research to get reported, another that shows again charters no better than the public schools.
So far, the Christian Science Monitor and the Washington Times are the only papers of any national prominence to print anything on the findings. From WT:
So far, the Christian Science Monitor and the Washington Times are the only papers of any national prominence to print anything on the findings. From WT:
A study of middle school students in charter schools in 15 states has found that they generally
