The Failure of "Reform" - Charter Schools
So yet another study was released this month about charter schools. What does it conclude?
The overall tenor of our results is that charter schools are in some cases outperforming traditional public schools in terms of students' reading and math achievement, and in other cases performing similarly or worse.
No one should be surprised at this: there is a large body of evidence that charter schools are simply not the panacea for education that corporate reformers would have us believe. They don't teach the same population of students, and the successful ones don't cost any less (in many cases, they cost more) than public schools. There may be a place for charters as laboratories for educational theories, but the fraction of successful charters will never be replicable on a large scale.
And yet, here in New Jersey, the corporate reformers want to force outstanding school districts to fund new
