Education Secretary Arne Duncan Pushes to Aggressively Expand Charter Schools While Admitting Problems

Democracy Now by Kenneth Surratt, Bob Peterson, JUAN GONZALEZ, AMY GOODMAN | Jun. 23, 2009 (News Analysis)

(Video) The Obama administration has made opening more charter schools one of its top priorities in its plans to improve the nation’s education system. On Monday, Education Secretary Arne Duncan spoke at the annual gathering of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools in Washington, DC. His address came on the heels of a new Stanford University report that found that, on average, students in charter schools were not faring as well as students in ... Full Story »

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by Dwight Rousu - Jun. 23, 2009

The analysis looks down into the performance of charter schools motivated by the CREDO report showing charter schools doing worse than public schools. Much background information is brought forward.

Democracy is a troublesome system, it's just better than the others. That includes democratic schools.

The gathering of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools came on the heels of a new report by Stanford University’s Center for Research on Education Outcomes, or ... More »

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by Jack Dinkmeyer - Jun. 23, 2009

A TV roundtable discussion format in which a variety of people express their opinions about the value of charter schools. When I first retired I thought my experience and advanced education would be of value as a substitute teacher. My experience substituting in charter schools was that it was substandard education in the field of public education–itself a major scandal of incompetence, politics, penurious education, and who gives a damn about students?. Interestingly, when charter school teachers were offered jobs in “real” education–that is, in public schools–to a person, they jumped at the chance.

In the 70s my brother-in-law, a Ph.D in education and superintendent of schools in a major city, said public education was dead. Schools function only as surrogate parents and babysitters.

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by kazuhiro shino - Jun. 27, 2009

Education is not fit for scope simplified perspect.

Education policy needs versatility every child pushed in to one system is totally wrong. Most important is result of individual development education is for childrens' needs neither accountability nor governability.My chidren had problem with a one school which is well known private school & but both of them have rejected to attend it for a few years. Both of them are extremely bright & I sent them to boarding schoolwhich ranked top 50 in the country first year their performance is ... More »

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A Look at Arne Duncan's VIP List of Requests at Chicago Schools and the Effects of his Expansion of Charter Schools in Chicago

Democracy Now by Amy Goodman, Azam Ahmed, Pauline Lipman, Jitu Brown | Mar. 26, 2010 (Special Report)

(Multimedia) When President Obama’s Education Secretary, Arne Duncan, was the head of Chicago’s Public Schools, his office kept a list of powerful, well-connected people who asked for ...

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