Charter School Advocates Pushing Policies That Won’t Help Kids
Bigger class sizes, high teacher turnover, computer-based learning and “turnaround” districts won’t close the student achievement gap, according to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute’s Gordon Lafer, a political economist and associate professor at the University of Oregon.
“[Privatization is] an answer based on no evidence, either nationally or locally,” Lafer said.
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Wish pointing at how badly it’s working on the other side of the Atlantic had stopped Gove here in .uk…
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