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Friday, January 31, 2014

MCU Response to CEE Trust: A Reasoned Alternative to Choice Frenzy


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"Specifically, it took the CEE-Trust study to task for consolidating control over troubled districts; relying on market-based reforms and an increase use of charter schools; increasing schools’ reliance on short-term, inexperienced teachers from programs such as Teach for America; stressing the advantage of decentralized budgeting, which it said has not been shown to improve school funding or equity; and using more high-stakes tests to measure the performance of students, teachers and schools."