Education Law

School reform?

Robert J. Samuelson of The Washington Post takes on school reform today in his column noting:

“‘Reforms’ have disappointed for two reasons. First, no one has yet discovered transformative changes in curriculum or pedagogy, especially for inner-city schools, that are (in business lingo) “scalable” — easily transferable to other schools, where they would predictably produce achievement gains. Efforts in New York and the District to raise educational standards involve contentious and precarious school-by-school campaigns to purge “ineffective” teachers and principals. Charter schools might break this pattern, though there are grounds for skepticism. In 2009, the 4,700 charter schools enrolled about 3 percent of students and did not uniformly show achievement gains.”

Let us know what you think, has school reform been successful on the federal level?

Full post as published by BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog on September 06, 2010 (boomark / email).