Friday, December 16, 2011

Weekly Update: Online Learning and Charter School Failures, Successful Military Children and of Course, Much, Much More | Seattle Education

Weekly Update: Online Learning and Charter School Failures, Successful Military Children and of Course, Much, Much More | Seattle Education:


Weekly Update: Online Learning and Charter School Failures, Successful Military Children and of Course, Much, Much More

This first article by Dave Sirota on how it still boils down to economics in education. See What Real Education Reform Looks Like. Below is an excerpt:

As 2011 draws to a close, we can confidently declare that one of the biggest debates over education is — mercifully — resolved. We may not have addressed all of the huge challenges facing our schools, but we finally have empirical data ruling out apocryphal theories and exposing