Our goal is to capture these stories, preserve them, and make them digitally available to anyone interested in
learning about the charter school movement's important history.
Teaching is beginning to encounter a push toward a market approach, as evidenced by
debates about charter schools, school choice, and school vouchers.
Trying to frame the research that has emerged
about charter schools as completely positive or completely negative misses the nuanced approach that most research attempts to take.
You don't have the hands - on knowledge needed to develop an unbiased, clear and inclusive position that represents how parents like me
feel about charter schools.
And substantial percentages remain
undecided about charter schools and other reform initiatives, suggesting that the current national debate over school policy has the potential to sway public opinion in one direction or another.
The changes require that private funds used to support a school be disclosed and that
complaints about charter school operating procedures be handled in the same way as complaints about traditional schools are handled.
Among the 58 percent of the American public who know
enough about charter schools to have an opinion, three times as many favor as oppose them.
I wanted to highlight three good blog
posts about charter schools that came out this weekend from those for and against charter schools.
That half the public has yet to make up its
mind about charter schools may provide researchers with an opportunity to shape the public conversation going forward.
In some of the cities known as ground zero for noisy
fights about charter schools, quiet partnerships are underway between district and charter leaders.