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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

“Incubators of Innovation?” « Diane Ravitch's blog

“Incubators of Innovation?” « Diane Ravitch's blog:


“Incubators of Innovation?”

To mark National Charter School Week, President Obama issued a proclamation hailing charter schools as “incubators of innovation.”
I began wondering what exactly he was thinking about.
I wonder if he ever visited the website http://charterschoolscandals.blogspot.com/.
I wonder if he knows about the nation’s largest charter chain, the Gulen network, run by associates of a Turkish imam.
I wonder if he was thinking about the “no excuses” charter schools, where mostly black children are taught