Other than a few loaded terms, this is an outstanding discussion of the issues relating to public vs. charter schools.

A well-reasoned discussion about the public-vs-privatized education issue. There are excellent points on both sides of the question, but somehow, privatizing what has always been public education seems threatening.

Knopp presents a well researched study of efforts to privatize education for profit, and identifies charter schools as the current main tool in those efforts. The topic is timely since Obama has fallen in the camp of charter schools, perhaps due to bad Kool Aid served up in Chicago. Knopps research is expansive, and she advocates for public education, not private for-profit education.

This story is important - the writer has a vested interest in the point of view she defends, but the facts are presented well and her voice is reasoned and mature.

I found the article somewhat confusing. It obviously supports a point of view, but seems to be selective about the facts it uses, resorts to name calling, and seems at times to be a rant.

This is an interesting review of the history of charter schools - originally progressive alternatives to mainstream public schools, where new ideas about education could be tested. In the face of nationwide standardization, and as a result of privatization, there is a movement of for-profit charter schools (publicly funded but with little public oversight) which some politicians and economists are using as an attack on the very future of public education.

Obvious bias and distoriton overwhelm any possibility of value