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Film review: The myth of charter schools

By Alliance Alert

Diane Ravitch writing at The New York Review of Books: "Davis Guggenheim?s Waiting for 'Superman' . . . arrived in late September with the biggest publicity splash I have ever seen for a documentary . . . The message of these films has become alarmingly familiar: American public education is a failed enterprise. The problem is not money. Public schools already spend too much. Test scores are low because there are so many bad teachers, whose jobs are protected by powerful unions . . . The movie asserts a central thesis in today?s school reform discussion: the idea that teachers are the most important factor determining student achievement. But this proposition is false."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on October 22, 2010 (boomark / email).