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Schools Matter: More Attention to Segregated Charter Schools Without Real Teachers

Schools Matter: More Attention to Segregated Charter Schools Without Real Teachers

More Attention to Segregated Charter Schools Without Real Teachers

From a piece for NPR by Natalie Hopkinson:
Natalie Hopkinson is a fellow of the Interactivity Foundation and the co-author of Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation. . . . .


. . . .Many D.C. parents are finding that, sure, there are plenty of choices — just not a lot of good, or even passable ones. When you mix corporate strategies with an ominous 2014 compliance deadline under the "No Child Left Behind" law, you often end up with scenes that look nothing like