New Reviews Of Charter School Research
Here are the newest additions to The Best Posts & Articles Analyzing Charter Schools:
Matthew Di Carlo at The Albert Shanker Institute has recently published — in three parts — what is probably the best and most even handed analysis of charter school research. The three posts are:
The Evidence On Charter Schools
Explaining The Consistently Inconsistent Results Of Charter Schools
“Parents denied chance to observe classroom”
Parents denied chance to observe classroom is the title of a post by Jay Mathews at The Washington Post.
Not letting parents who might be sending their child to a school doesn’t seem to me to be the wisest parent engagement policy for a school to have. There are plenty of comments on his post. It’s worth a visit.
More Thanksgiving Resources
Here are the newest additions to The Best Sites To Learn & Teach About Thanksgiving:
“The Places We Live”
The Places We Live is an impressive multimedia presentation. This is how it’s described:
In 2008 more people live in cities than in rural areas. One third of city dwellers, more than a billion people, live in slums. In The Places We Live, Magnum photographer Jonas Bendiksen presents sixteen homes in four different
