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...suppose I shouldn’t be too concerned by the education plan that the Senate is negotiating. This is to say, politics at work, the point and purpose of American democracy. The Senate plan of annual school testing and the eventual overhaul of consistently failing schools into charter schools is a political proposal which outwardly plays on the popular sentiment of “getting tough on schools,” yet really does no such thing...
Privatized charter schools instill a market ethic, replacing flabby public schools with schools hardened by competition and run with businesslike efficiency—an idea similar, one may assume, to the rationale behind the Bush presidency. Rather than simply throwing more money at a school, the bloated school budget would be put in the hands of a private, often for-profit, company. Students and parents may be given a choice about where to attend school, forcing schools to compete for their students. Charging a private organization with the handling of a public school is the ultimate move to clean...
...states. Watering down the NAEP and testing provisions is "disastrous and takes away the heart and spirit of the legislation and the ability to overturn the status quo," says Kelly Amis, program director of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, a conservative-leaning research group that supports measures such as charter schools and vouchers. "We will be left with the same old story...
PSLM member Aaron D. Bartley says he began to recognize the Corporation's unparalleled decision-making ability after examining a University charter dating back to the 17th century...
Except for the hair (he cut it, sort of), Morris, 44, is still the same mouthy iconoclast he always was--only now his once controversial work has become the gold standard of creativity for a new generation of dancers, choreographers and critics. Charter company members like Tina Fehlandt are currently teaching the gospel of St. Mark to such prestigious ensembles as the American Ballet Theatre and the San Francisco Ballet, both of which commissioned new pieces from Morris this season. He is the subject of a just published coffee-table anthology of essays and interviews about L'Allegro. "Some...