There’s a lot of well-deserved buzz about Madeleine Sackler’s new documentary, The Lottery. The film follows four families who have entered the lottery for admission to kindergarten in the hugely-successful Harlem Success Academy, a charter school in New York. It’s hard to argue that parents of poor kids don’t care about their kids’ education– or [...]
Joanne Jacobs takes a look at Stuart Buck’s Acting White: The Ironic Legacy of Desegregation. Buck’s an interesting guy who brings both credentials and experience to the issue. He’s a classical musician, lawyer (Harvard) and scholar who writes on legal as well as education issues. He’s a white dad of six, including an adopted black [...]
Over at the Charter Blog, they’re celebrating National Charter Schools Week with a link to The Huffington Post, where Mike Piscal is asking some very interesting questions about unions and charter school teachers. The unions in LA, as Piscal describes them, seem to be suffering from schizophrenia. They are at the same time criticizing the [...]
A Georgia judge has ruled that state-sponsored charter schools there are not unconstitutional. Seven school systems had sued the state, arguing that the Georgie Charter School System is building a separate and independent school system. The charters won in this go-round. According to Bruce Brown, their attorney: The constitution does not include any word that [...]
Chad Aldeman, writing at The Quick and the Ed, argues that school choice is not a good in itself. Specifically, he takes issue with what Charles Murray has to say in the NYT today in an op-ed entitled “Why Charter Schools Fail the Test.” Murray’s wrong, but Aldeman is even more wrong. Aldeman says that [...]