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By: Emergent Culture - Emergent Culture as Regenerative Dynamic of Culture

Emergent Culture - Emergent Culture as Regenerative Dynamic of Culture — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:43:20 +0000

[...] Just What Exactly Is a Charter School? One of the more consistent, ongoing suggestions for improving America’s educational system centers upon the creation of greater competition amongst public schools. The reason for the steady drumbeat centers upon a belief that a change to the free market system would be one of the best methods for creating better educational opportunities for children.……. [...]

By: L. Smith

L. Smith — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 04:22:12 +0000

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.

By: Tom Humble, Principal of Raleigh Charter High School, on Creating a School and More — Open Education

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:09:40 +0000

[...] 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 [...]

By: Just What Exactly Is a Charter School? » Learning Freely Network

Just What Exactly Is a Charter School? » Learning Freely Network — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:04:30 +0000

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