Chartering For The Sake of Chartering
Bruce Baker has written a scintillating analysis of a CREDO study in NJ here, and it makes my head hurt.... it also makes me melancholy for brainpower I was never blessed with.
Howevs, toward the end of the post, there's this:
Howevs, toward the end of the post, there's this:
While it is likely that there exists some strategies employed by some charters (as well as some strategies employed by some district schools) that are working quite well – THE CREDO REPORT PROVIDES ABSOLUTELY NO INSIGHTS IN THIS REGARD. It’s a classic “charter v. district” comparison – where it is assumed that “chartering” represents one set of educational/programmatic strategies and “districting” represents another – when in fact, neither is true (see the scatter of dots in my plots above to see the variations in each group!).I recently read somewhere that B3 was "tired" of the charter vs. take-all-comers traditional schools debate, and