| Charter Joe Nathan's comment about charter schools having something to offer mainstream education. |
6/9/04 1:37 PM |
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Carole Mottaz
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I'm joining this conversation late, Joe, and didn't take the time to look at other responses but I would like to add something.
Raywid says it best, I think, in her writing about alterantive schools when she stated that, as a result of her research, high quality teaching is important for regular education but essential for alterantive education. As you know in the state of Minnesota, common practices in alternative schools are being looked at to imporve mainstream education.
The other huge value of charter schools, with the freedom of potentially unnecessary restrictions, is to see how many of them are necessary. Unfortunately, in my opinion, some things have been done the same way in schools for many years because "they have always been done that way" and are, quite frankly antiquated.
As a result of my own research, I am quite convinced that too many children fail in the mainstream school setting because so little value is given to the local culture. The success of different practices to accommodate cultural differences can be clearly noted in the charter school setting.
The beauty about public charter shcools is that we are held accountable in the majority of the same ways as the local school district, unlike private schools.
Charter schools can be seen as living, breathing test sites.
Posted as a reply to:
Dealing with charter critics by Joe Nathan
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