The Charter Flood is Still Coming
A recent round of public disclosure documents tells me that I'm not wrong about the tsunami effect of ed reform that is likely headed our way.
Frankly, I think that the state-supported Center for Reinventing Education is really nothing but a think-tank for ed reform. They likely get at least half their grant money from the Gates Foundation. I see almost no research on anything else but charters, CMOs, TFA starting a principal TFA (a number of you saw that coming), etc. I don't mind it so much when it's a privately-funded right-wing think tank but it is depressing to see your tax dollars at work for a one-sided effort.
The current push on ed reform:
Frankly, I think that the state-supported Center for Reinventing Education is really nothing but a think-tank for ed reform. They likely get at least half their grant money from the Gates Foundation. I see almost no research on anything else but charters, CMOs, TFA starting a principal TFA (a number of you saw that coming), etc. I don't mind it so much when it's a privately-funded right-wing think tank but it is depressing to see your tax dollars at work for a one-sided effort.
The current push on ed reform:
- something called a "fiscal analytics center" that Paul Hill at CRPE was pushing before he left there recently. It appears to be a souped-up benefit-cost ratio idea.
- using CRPE as a "lead" for any state-driven research so that the research looks more nationally-based.
