Another “Miracle School” Debunked: Harlem Village Academies
” All that holds Village Academies together is Deborah Kenny’s unrelenting ambition and greed.”Gary Rubenstein looks closely at yet another charter school touted as a miracle school by the ed reformers and their accolades echoed by the press to find out what’s really going on in his post:
It takes a village.
Probably the worst part about being an opponent of bad education reform is when I have to ‘debunk’ a potential ‘miracle school.’ A ‘miracle’ school is one that gets extremely high test scores despite having the same types of students as the nearby failing school. The miracle school, if it exists, would prove that poverty does not, in fact, matter. All you need is harder working teachers.
Debunking schools is not bad because it is difficult. Finding the incriminating data usually takes less than an