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Charter Schools are Great -- But Not Why You Think Kevin Carey
Charter school laws opened a conduit for talent, energy, and philanthropic money directed toward public education, resources that previously had no way to break into a bureaucratized monopoly state school system. Even if that's all they did, that's way more than enough.

Great teachers on screen Joanne Jacobs
Who are the five greatest teachers in the movies? Ellen Kim makes her choices for Teacher Appreciation Week.

The New Teacher Project Ed Notes
Imagine if all ATR's were placed in jobs, jobs that would otherwise go to Teaching Fellows. Will that lead to TNTP having their own ATR's?

Chrter schools in The Economist Flypaper
Two articles about charter schools in this week’s Economist are online here (Chicago) and here (New York).

 

Comments

[Paul]

Thanks for the links Alex - I'm looking forward to see what role the charter school debate plays in the election...should be interesting. I wanted to also bring to your attention a great project I've been working on - Intel ISEF. The world’s best young scientists, including many Georgia students, will be “Uniting the World through Science” in Atlanta at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair 2008 (Intel ISEF) May 11-16, 2008. They are doing some really cool projects and hopefully your readers will check it out - a nice showcase for some of America's brightest young minds!