Sentences with phrase «rhetoric about charter schools»

Given the positive rhetoric about charter schools being able to «beat the odds» one might expect their achievement profile on the SAT to be significantly higher than the achievement found in public high schools located in either «A» or «B» communities.

Not exact matches

Errol Louis says the UFT's decision to shut down the K - 8 grades at its NYC charter school «neatly contradicts much of the union's overheated rhetoric about the supposed ills and evils of charter schools.»

The mayor's office staff disdain to play up the rhetoric of free markets in talking about their charter schools, but much of their intelligence derives from outside government: nonprofits and even the private sector.

Lead author of Rhetoric vs. Reality: What We Know and What We Need to Know About Vouchers and Charter Schools, he has published in the Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Behavioral Science and Policy, Statistics and Public Policy, the Journal of Labor Economics, Economics of Education Review, Education Finance and Policy, American Journal of Education, Teachers College Record, Peabody Journal of Education, Education Next, the Handbook of Research on School Choice, and the Encyclopedia of Education Economics and Finance.

Rhetoric Versus Reality: What We Know and What We Need to Know About Vouchers and Charter Schools

Rhetoric Versus Reality — What We Know and What We Need to Know About Vouchers and Charter Schools (Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation).

«Too often public rhetoric pits charters and public schools against each other, when really all we care about is better opportunities for our kids.

Duncan's rhetoric about testing is a slippery as his charter school dodge («I only support good charter schools»).