Web Roundup: Charter Research, Incentive Pay, Edu-Santellis, and Obama's C- Ed-Speech

by Clay Burell · 2009-03-13 13:05:00 UTC
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For all the well-funded hype and hoopla about charters being the answer, a couple of pieces of research to put a pin in that balloon:

Obama supports lifting caps on charters, as long as they're better-regulated. By George, he'd better be serious about that, as this charter charlatan in California demonstrates:The School Guru Who Promised Rescue and Brought Ruin

Chicago's Michael Klonsky reports some inconvenient truths about Arne Duncan's much-hyped Renaissance 2010 program.

Pay students to make better grades? The NYTimes recaps decades of research showing this is an old idea for a good reason, though we seem to have forgotten this history: Rewards for Students Under a Microscope - NYTimes.com

More pay will make better teachers? Alfie Kohn gives this a skeptical once-over in The Folly of Merit Pay.

Really? Certified teachers are no better than Ivy League wonders fresh out of college? New research suggests otherwise: Certified teachers+modern instruction=better public-school math scores

For-profit schools run by business executives are the way to go? Dana Goldstein at The American Prospect gives us an in-depth case study of the travesty of Edison Schools in Business School.

Gerald Bracey at HuffPo gives Obama's education address low marks in On Education, Obama Blows It .

The Testocrats and "no excuses" camp got a lot of mileage out of their "soft bigotry of low expectations" slogan. Rethinking Schools addresses that camp's studiously-ignored elephant in the classroom in the nicely-riffed Hunger, Academic Success, and the Hard Bigotry of Indifference.

Image by williac on Flickr.

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