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he report, titled Do Poor Kids Deserve Lower-Quality Education than Rich Kids? Evaluating School Privatization Proposals in Milwaukee, focuses on the model of Rocketship, a national charter elementary school organization that hopes to expand its Milwaukee footprint to eight schools by 2018.
City officials have even considered carving out the lowest-performing parts of the citys schools for charters to operate, similar to the New Orleans recovery district. Milwaukees Chamber of Commerce and Democratic Mayor Tom Barrett are among the charter chains supporters, raising millions to help it grow.
Rocketships investors, who are tech industry heavyweights, claim altruistic intentions: they care about the kids! But theyre also profiting from the expansion of charter schools, a market for their own products and services.
Case in point: Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, on the board of Rocketship, is also an investor in a company called Dream Box, which runs software the schools use for math applications. In the public sector this type of self-dealing is often prohibited, because schools should be choosing the service or product with the best track record, not the one that will enrich investors.
So its no surprise that businessmen like Hastings find investing in charters much more appealing than paying more taxes to support public schools.
TWO-TIER SCHOOLS
Lafer points out that the charter companies self-proclaimed cutting-edge learning models offer anything but advanced instruction.
In Rocketships blended learning, for instance, students learn basic literacy and math with an emphasis on test preparation, receiving online instruction in the schools computer labs. Other academic subjects, arts, and music are left out of this education model.
The teachers at such schools are often inexperienced, with an average 30 percent teacher turnover from year to yeartwice the Milwaukee school district average. A non-union workforce is part of the incentive for school districts to switch to charters, though some charter teachers have begun to unionize.
50 to 1
While it claims a 29 to 1 student-teacher ratio, which includes non-certified, lower-paid instructors, Rocketship has actually redesigned its instructional model, shifting the ratio closer to 50 to 1. Company leaders explained bluntly that they were changing the schools structure to extract more money for expansion.
Even as they skimp on teachers and dumb down the curriculum, Rocketship and other charters brag of their mission to serve low-income black and Latino students. In reality they are further segregating Americas schools, creating two tiers: one for the affluent, where students get exposure to the arts, languages, sports, and one-on-one instruction, and the other where they are taught the basics, and spend most of their time in front of a computer.
We need to reform Public Education
Total Complete reform
We need to reform Public Education
Total Complete reform
How?
We need to reform Public Education
Total Complete reform
How?
Let's start with what's not working:
1. Our federal public education system spends more each year and get consistently poorer results year after year
2. It is virtually impossible to fire a non-performing teacher
3. Great teachers earn the same money as awful teacher of the same vintage
4. Requiring a Masters degree in education preempts a vast pool of otherwise qualified people from becoming teachers
5. For the most part, Parents have no choice on where to send their children
We need to reform Public Education
Total Complete reform
How?
How?
Let's start with what's not working:
1. Our federal public education system spends more each year and get consistently poorer results year after year
2. It is virtually impossible to fire a non-performing teacher
3. Great teachers earn the same money as awful teacher of the same vintage
4. Requiring a Masters degree in education preempts a vast pool of otherwise qualified people from becoming teachers
5. For the most part, Parents have no choice on where to send their children
Critical thinking, not being your forte, produced what I expected: "Ain't it Awful".
Try this on for a start:
1. Montessori Theory - Maria Montessori
Providing public education for ages 3 to 6 for all children using many of the techniques developed by Maria Montessori; this may be cost effective in the long term. Problems not discovered until the child begins to act out socially or fall behind academically when they are six or seven years of age can become life long issue for them, their family and our society.
2. Ages 7 to 11 need to learn to read with comprehension, compose, using proper English grammar and syntax, compute, and express themselves verbally. Emphasis on critical thinking skills, healthy living and the ability to get along with others.
3. 12 -17 continue to work on basic education skills, reading, writing, verbal expression, Science and mathematics. Exposure to the Arts, Athletics, Crafts, Technology and real life skills; Sex education included a part of a health education/physical education curriculum - age appropriate of course.
4. 18 to 20: College Prep/career prep or two years national service.
How?
Let's start with what's not working:
1. Our federal public education system spends more each year and get consistently poorer results year after year
2. It is virtually impossible to fire a non-performing teacher
3. Great teachers earn the same money as awful teacher of the same vintage
4. Requiring a Masters degree in education preempts a vast pool of otherwise qualified people from becoming teachers
5. For the most part, Parents have no choice on where to send their children
Critical thinking, not being your forte, produced what I expected: "Ain't it Awful".
Try this on for a start:
1. Montessori Theory - Maria Montessori
Providing public education for ages 3 to 6 for all children using many of the techniques developed by Maria Montessori; this may be cost effective in the long term. Problems not discovered until the child begins to act out socially or fall behind academically when they are six or seven years of age can become life long issue for them, their family and our society.
2. Ages 7 to 11 need to learn to read with comprehension, compose, using proper English grammar and syntax, compute, and express themselves verbally. Emphasis on critical thinking skills, healthy living and the ability to get along with others.
3. 12 -17 continue to work on basic education skills, reading, writing, verbal expression, Science and mathematics. Exposure to the Arts, Athletics, Crafts, Technology and real life skills; Sex education included a part of a health education/physical education curriculum - age appropriate of course.
4. 18 to 20: College Prep/career prep or two years national service.
Let me see if I am right.
1. They're single parent families that are disadvantaged. Wow, scaring away the dad was really a good effin idea!
2. Minorities that bitch through life.
That are the bottom of this two stage totem pole!
Am I right?
Let's start with what's not working:
1. Our federal public education system spends more each year and get consistently poorer results year after year
2. It is virtually impossible to fire a non-performing teacher
3. Great teachers earn the same money as awful teacher of the same vintage
4. Requiring a Masters degree in education preempts a vast pool of otherwise qualified people from becoming teachers
5. For the most part, Parents have no choice on where to send their children
Critical thinking, not being your forte, produced what I expected: "Ain't it Awful".
Try this on for a start:
1. Montessori Theory - Maria Montessori
Providing public education for ages 3 to 6 for all children using many of the techniques developed by Maria Montessori; this may be cost effective in the long term. Problems not discovered until the child begins to act out socially or fall behind academically when they are six or seven years of age can become life long issue for them, their family and our society.
2. Ages 7 to 11 need to learn to read with comprehension, compose, using proper English grammar and syntax, compute, and express themselves verbally. Emphasis on critical thinking skills, healthy living and the ability to get along with others.
3. 12 -17 continue to work on basic education skills, reading, writing, verbal expression, Science and mathematics. Exposure to the Arts, Athletics, Crafts, Technology and real life skills; Sex education included a part of a health education/physical education curriculum - age appropriate of course.
4. 18 to 20: College Prep/career prep or two years national service.
Freddo, are you defending the current state of our public "Education" system?
Hey, Freddo, it's time for you to post something else irrelevant.
"The United States underperformance was particularly striking in math, where 29 countries or education systems had higher test scores. In science, students in 22 countries did better than Americans, and in reading, 19 countries."
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/03/e...math-on-international-standardized-tests.html
