If Schools Are Broken, What Is the Solution? Answer: Urban School Reform–WRONG! � Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

If Schools Are Broken, What Is the Solution? Answer: Urban School Reform–WRONG! � Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

If Schools Are Broken, What Is the Solution? Answer: Urban School Reform–WRONG!

by larrycuban

Here we go again. Another 24/7 media frenzy over the direction of school reform has erupted over David Guggenheim’s documentary “Waiting for Superman,” Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s gift of $100,000,000 to Newark public schools, and the resignation of Chancellor Michele Rhee’s from the Washington, D.C. schools. Oops! also the urban superintendents’ recent “manifesto.” But why “here we go again?”

Because:

1. Today, school reform is a 18-wheeler tractor-trailer bound for U.S. schools carrying a full load of charter