http://www.openeducation.net/2008/10/22/just-what-exactly-is-a-charter-school/ Free Education for All Fri, 13 May 2011 00:38:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.openeducation.net/2008/10/22/just-what-exactly-is-a-charter-school/#comment-5515 L. Smith Sun, 16 Nov 2008 04:22:12 +0000 http://www.openeducation.net/?p=325#comment-5515 Charter schools are just an invention of big city school systems to fix the problem of underenrolled schoolhouses. There is no magic to it insofar as improving the quality of education. The idea is an artifact invented by school administrators. What this country really needs is to look at the education problem from outside the paradigm paralysis of schools, schoolhouses, and teachers. Take a look at the end-to-end treatment and actionable recommendations in the recently released commission report, "Education in America -- What's to Be Done?" developed by Trigon-International to see how this problem is best addressed. Charter schools are just an invention of big city school systems to fix the problem of underenrolled schoolhouses. There is no magic to it insofar as improving the quality of education. The idea is an artifact invented by school administrators. What this country really needs is to look at the education problem from outside the paradigm paralysis of schools, schoolhouses, and teachers. Take a look at the end-to-end treatment and actionable recommendations in the recently released commission report, “Education in America — What’s to Be Done?” developed by Trigon-International to see how this problem is best addressed.

]]> http://www.openeducation.net/2008/10/22/just-what-exactly-is-a-charter-school/#comment-5280 Tom Humble, Principal of Raleigh Charter High School, on Creating a School and More — Open Education Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:09:40 +0000 http://www.openeducation.net/?p=325#comment-5280 [...] our prior two posts, we have taken an in-depth look at the concept of a charter school. In our first post we presented an overview of what constitutes a charter school and the rationale for this type of [...] [...] our prior two posts, we have taken an in-depth look at the concept of a charter school. In our first post we presented an overview of what constitutes a charter school and the rationale for this type of [...]

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