Gulen Criticism Goes Mainstream
Last night, 60 Minutes moved the concern about Gulen schools away from tin-foil hat country and into the mainstream:
Interesting; unfortunately, once again, CBS News misses the point when it comes to "high-performing" charter schools.
Take, for example, Bergen Arts and Sciences here in Jersey. Typically, as Lesley Stahl reports, they try to distance themselves from Gulen, but Bergen A & S is a Turkish school nonetheless. I wrote about the school this past December; is it really that "impressive"?
Interesting; unfortunately, once again, CBS News misses the point when it comes to "high-performing" charter schools.
Take, for example, Bergen Arts and Sciences here in Jersey. Typically, as Lesley Stahl reports, they try to distance themselves from Gulen, but Bergen A & S is a Turkish school nonetheless. I wrote about the school this past December; is it really that "impressive"?
I went to the Common Core of Data at NCES to get the demographic data for all of the schools in the zip code of Bergen A & S. Using Bruce Baker's method, I made another another quick graph:
Many of the schools have a larger population of "free lunch" kids than Bergen, but not by a huge amount; some have a slightly smaller percentage. But look carefully at
