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Promise And Peril: Charter Schools, Urban School Reform, and the Obama Administration
Charles Payne,Tim Knowles +1 more
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Payne and Knowles as mentioned in this paper argue that given President Obama's support of charter schools, it is time for educators and policymakers to closely consider both the possibilities and the limitations of these schools in the context of urban school reform.Abstract:
In this essay, Charles Payne and Tim Knowles argue that given President Obama's support of charter schools, it is time for educators and policymakers to closely consider both the possibilities and the limitations of these schools in the context of urban school reform. The authors discuss the unique flexibility of charter schools—namely in staffing, time, budgetary autonomy, governance, and protection from district policies—as a significant source of their potential effectiveness. However, they also note the major challenges these schools face, as evidenced by variability in achievement results, sustainability, and quality of instruction. The authors suggest that these strengths and challenges must be considered together, and that the administration must focus on the elements of effective schooling for all children. Drawing upon this kind of evidence, the authors conclude, will lead to a more grounded and less partisan debate about urban education.read more
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Heretical Discourses in Post-Katrina Charter School Applications:
TL;DR: Using New Orleans as a site of analysis, the authors provides a critical race theory reading of a little studied policy mechanism, the charter school application and authorization process, which is used in our work.
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Playing hopscotch in inclusive education reform: examining promises and limitations of policy and practice in the US
TL;DR: Vaughan and Fuchs as mentioned in this paper provide a commentary on the state of play of inclusive education in the United States, focusing on the promises and limitations of inter-related accountability-and market-driven policies and Response to Intervention.
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Is Choice a Panacea? An Analysis of Black Secondary Student Attrition from KIPP, Other Private Charters, and Urban Districts.
TL;DR: This article found that despite the claims that 88-90% of the children attending KIPP charters go on to college, their attrition rate for Black secondary students surpasses that of their peer urban districts.
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Stakeholders’ Perceptions of Culturally Responsive Leadership in a K-12 Public Charter School in North Carolina
TL;DR: The authors explored stakeholders' perceptions of the culturally responsive leadership practices of a K-12 public charter school in North Carolina and found that the school leaders, teachers, and parents were unanimous in their belief that culturally-responsive leadership established a welcoming and supportive school culture through instructional leadership and created a sense of belonging for all stakeholders.
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Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement
Eric A. Hanushek,Eric A. Hanushek,Eric A. Hanushek,John F. Kain,Steven G. Rivkin,Steven G. Rivkin +5 more
TL;DR: The authors disentangles the separate factors influencing achievement with special attention given to the role of teacher differences and other aspects of schools, and estimates educational production functions based on models of achievement growth with individual fixed effects.
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Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement
TL;DR: In this article, the authors disentangle the impact of schools and teachers in influencing achievement with special attention given to the potential problems of omitted or mismeasured variables and of student and school selection.
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Using Knowledge of Children’s Mathematics Thinking in Classroom Teaching: An Experimental Study
TL;DR: The authors investigated teachers' use of knowledge from research on children's mathematical thinking and how their students' achievement is influenced as a result, and found that experimental teachers encouraged students to use a variety of problem-solving strategies, and they listened to processes their students used significantly more than did control teachers.
Young, gifted, and Black : promoting high achievement among African-American students
TL;DR: The racial achievement gap is as old as slavery as discussed by the authors and it has been identified as a major obstacle to black achievement in the United States since the 18th and 19th centuries, when European and American intellectuals relied on craniometry to explain and defend racial hierarchy.
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Spinning Wheels: The Politics of Urban School Reform
TL;DR: Hess argues that much of what ails urban education is actually the result of continuous or fragmentary reform as discussed by the authors, which distracts teachers and principals from efforts to refine classroom teaching while seldom resulting in successful long-term changes.
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