NY Times, Chicago News Cooperative weigh in on Noble discipline
Crude. Absurd. Double Taxation. Noble?
Today’s New York Times reports on our challenge to Noble Charter Network’s discipline policy, with an education expert calling it “double taxation” that could “push away more disadvantaged kids or more disruptive kids.”
Today’s Chicago News Cooperative offers an opinion piece by James Warren who quotes two researchers:
James Heckman, a Nobel Prize-winning economist at the University of Chicago whose research has identified the important role that social and emotional skills play in developing human capital, from birth to job training, said he thought the Noble approach was a crude one. “There are probably better ways to motivate people than with cash,” Heckman said, “and it’s unfair for really poor students and parents.”
Colin Greer, a Scottish-bred educator who is president of the New World Foundation, which
