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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Schools Matter: Top 10 Reasons For 1%ers to Support Charter Schools

Schools Matter: Top 10 Reasons For 1%ers to Support Charter Schools:

Top 10 Reasons For 1%ers to Support Charter Schools


Based on comparisons from the Stanford CREDO study of 2009, only 17 percent of charter schoolsnationwide are performing better than matched public schools. Of that 17 percent of higher-scoringcharters, the intensely-segregated urban charters use forms of totalcompliance lockdown teaching, corporate positivity, and cultural sterilizationthat white teachers in these schools would never allow to be used on their ownchildren.

There mustbe, then, more important social and economic reasons that some folks, who wouldotherwise not leave children behind in these hellholes ifthey were public schools, see charters schools as the only other choice forchildren in crumbling public schools whose poverty and lack of privilege arepredictably reflected in their very