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Though the U.N. Charter was signed on June 26, 1945, in San Francisco, it was not enforced until October 24th of the same year...
...will be two shuttle buses running in a continuous loop between the Office of Career Services, 54 Dunster Street, and the Gordon Track & Tennis Center and also Johnson Gate, Currier House and the GTTC between the hours of 9:45 and 4:30. The buses will be clearly marked Charter: Career Forum...
Moreover, the market-in the form of charter schools-has already proven itself to be ill-suited to the needs of education. Charter schools, an innovation imported from England several years ago, encourages individuals with a plan for an experimental school to apply for funding directly from the state without prior approval from local officials. The New Republic has chronicled the disaster of the charter schools over the past year or so. We have read of an Afrocentric high school in Washington, D.C. that threw a white journalist out of the school, hurling epithets. Elsewhere, a charter school is established...
...lesson of the charter schools is that the marketplace, left to its own devices, tends towards entrepreneurial gimmickry. Charter schools are the slinkies and hoola hoops of the educational system. Here one is devoted to the study of the environment, there one is styled after a European academy. If charter schools do not lead to further balkanization of the nation, the New Republic's claim, it will certainly result in a generation of niche-educated boutiquey kids...
...problem with school choice is that it fails to explain how public schools will get better. It is the philosophy of "where there is a will, there is a way," without describing the way. It is embarrassed by the charter schools and vague in its promises. We are better off taking the concrete steps necessary to a better educational system. If we want to move up the ranks of the industrial nations in this regard, we cannot rest on our laurels and expect the invisible hand to do our dirty work...