Friday, September 7, 2012

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Charter school mythology -- Part II, The myth of charter superiority

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Charter school mythology -- Part II, The myth of charter superiority:


Charter school mythology -- Part II, The myth of charter superiority

By Mike Klonsky

This is the second part of a three-part series of posts on Charter school mythology.

The transformation of charter schools from in-district experiments in the early 1990s, to competitive, highly-privatized alternative networks a decade later, has had a major impact on the way we think about public education as well as on how learning outcomes are reported. Networks of charter operators, cyber-schoolers, and  their allied web of charter school associations and authorizers, as well as conservative think tanks, have produced their own "studies" and