http://www.eduwonk.com/2008/06/charter-networks.html Education News, Analysis, and Commentary Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:18:17 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://www.eduwonk.com/2008/06/charter-networks.html/comment-page-1#comment-949 Dave Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:06:00 +0000 http://www.eduwonk.com/wordpress/2008/06/charter-networks.html#comment-949 The policy of school choice for parents and closing the achievement gap does not mix. You can't have it both ways. As a teacher, I can tell you that the success of low-achieving students in the Fordham Report is directly due to the sacrifice of time for high-achievers, which is why they are "languishing." If you allow school choice, parents of high-achieving students will leave schools like mine, and low-achievers won't get the extra time they've been getting over the last seven years because they'll have to share it with more low-achievers. The policy of school choice for parents and closing the achievement gap does not mix. You can’t have it both ways. As a teacher, I can tell you that the success of low-achieving students in the Fordham Report is directly due to the sacrifice of time for high-achievers, which is why they are “languishing.” If you allow school choice, parents of high-achieving students will leave schools like mine, and low-achievers won’t get the extra time they’ve been getting over the last seven years because they’ll have to share it with more low-achievers.

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