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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

This Week In Education: Thompson: What The CMO Report Means For The Rest Of Us

This Week In Education: Thompson: What The CMO Report Means For The Rest Of Us:

Thompson: What The CMO Report Means For The Rest Of Us

CenterIt is to the credit of the Center on Reinventing Public Education that they and Mathematica published another study that provides evidence that the standard data-driven "reforms" are not working and that many of the solutions proposed by teachers and our unions are producing success. "Charter-School Management Organizations: Diverse Strategies and Diverse Student Impacts" concludes that, "Among CMOs, school-wide behavior policies and intensive coaching of new teachers are positively associated with student impacts in both math and reading.” And the study also found, “At the CMO level, we do not find impacts to be