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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

When Jeanne Allen Comes Out Against the CREDO Study, the News Can’t Be Good for Charters – @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER

When Jeanne Allen Comes Out Against the CREDO Study, the News Can’t Be Good for Charters – @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER:

When Jeanne Allen Comes Out Against the CREDO Study, the News Can’t Be Good for Charters

Apparently, world champion charter industry promoter, Jeanne Allen, did not get the memo from the corporate ed offices that all corporate education welfare recipients should pretend that the new CREDO study was full of good news for the corrupt charter school industry.
Jeanne, who otherwise is a lifelong member of the Test and Punish Society for High Stakes Test Preservation, has come out with all barrels blazing against those CREDO creeps, who have the audacity to use test scores to say which charter schools are good or bad.
Stanford University’s Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) released its long-awaited study on charter schools this week, and the news was not good for those promoting charters as superior to traditional, unionized public schools. Thereport found charters gave students “a minimal boost on their reading scores,” and that “charter students in 16 states lost a bit of ground