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Creating a charter school is no automatic solution. A recent New York Times article noted that charter schools do not, simply by nature of being charter schools, improve education. When subjected to the same testing as public schools, pass rates for fourth graders in Michigan on math and reading tests were lower in charter schools than in traditional public schools. Likewise, a lower percentage of Texas charter school students passed the statewide graduation tests. Indeed, Texas has called for a moratorium on new charter schools until more information about academic performance can be gathered...
James Fogel, at age 50, has earned plenty of money as a lawyer, plus a splash of prestige as a criminal-court judge in New York City. Now he feels free to step down from the bench and dive back into the subjects he loved most in college: math and physics. At the same time, he is following what he describes as "an even higher calling" than the law--to work as an inner-city high school math teacher...
...much a matter of quality as quantity. While the teacher-training programs at U.S. colleges will graduate some 200,000 potential new educators this year--most of them bright and eager--school principals and reformers say a sizable minority of the neophytes are just not good enough, especially in math and science, at a time when expectations are rising for students and teachers alike...
Only about 38% of K-12 teachers in the U.S. have a degree in a field other than education. And in states from Massachusetts to Maryland, most teachers have flunked new certification tests in math and science. Yet for years, school systems have heavily favored applicants with education degrees. School systems made it difficult for even the best-qualified career switchers to become teachers, often requiring them to spend a year or more obtaining master's degrees in education. The recruiters often seemed to care more whether prospective teachers could talk the jargon of "metacognition" and "kinesthetic modalities" than whether...
...students in New York City's Catholic schools consistently outscore its 1.1 million public school kids on tests of math and reading skills, according to a New York University study. The Catholic schools' lead in test scores, while slight in the fourth grade, was "dramatic" by the eighth grade. That lead was evident even when Catholic and public schools serving poor neighborhoods and minority students were compared. And the Catholic schools spend about half as much per pupil as the public schools...