New Orleans The Gates Foundation released a study finding that good teachers made a difference in producing good education for students. Is there anyone out there alive today who ever thought for a minute that teachers don’t make the difference? Gates has a lot of money, but why spend it on something proving the obvious? …
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Democracy and Revenue: Where the New Orleans Autonomous Charter School Model Breaks Down
New Orleans New Orleans continues, past any notion of reality, to be touted as a model example of educational reform because of the huge number of charter schools, mostly run by separate and independent operators. There are many problems with this so-called model, but a huge, glaring deficiency has been the usurpation of any democratic, …
Coming to Grips with Elite Public High Schools
New Orleans Some of my class at Benjamin Franklin High School came together over the weekend in New Orleans to celebrate largely surviving over the many years since we graduated. Our class stood for something though it’s unclear how well. Our class had been the first public high school class to be integrated in New …