A Virtual Charter Miracle (But Not a Milagro…)
Virtual twins Chandra and Polly are exactly the same except that Chandra attends an academy of excellence and innovation while Polly goes to a union-stifled public school.
Meet virtual twins Chandra and Polly. The two share a common strand of demographic and testing DNA, but while Chandra attends a local academy of excellence and innovation, Polly whiles away her short and ineffective days at a union-stifled public school in Boston. Now, thanks to some expert data analysis (and a little cash infusion from our friends at the Walton Foundation), we can track the relative progress of these virtual twins. Will Chandra *crush* Polly on the Massachusetts high-stakes test in math or reading or in math AND reading? Does Polly even know that her teacher is a LIFO lifer who lacks the motivation to help her master 21st century skills?I’m talking, of course, about the new CREDOw report on charter school outstandingness in Massachusetts. If you are a glutton for punishment, you know that CREDOw has been pumping out these reports all winter long.By now, there’s a dreary sameness to the ritual: ecstatic applause from charter boosters, the wholesale printing of