Comments on: The Growing Charter School Consensus

By: Education As a Civil Right: It Includes School Choice

Education As a Civil Right: It Includes School Choice — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:48:39 +0000

[...] know that better options are emerging. High-quality charter schools can improve student achievement, especially for poor and minority students. Are all charters high-quality? Certainly not. But most [...]

By: Rick Fisher

Rick Fisher — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:06:59 +0000

One important point about math education.

Students need to master 3 essential clusters of math skills. Mastery of these skills will set them up for success in algebra and beyond.

The areas to be mastered are whole numbers, fractions (which includes decimals and percents), and certain aspects of measurement and geometry. Kids need to fully understand the concepts, be able to accurately compute (which includes automatic recall of number facts), and apply these skills to problem solving. What good is math if you can’t put it to good use.

If kids do not master these 3 clusters of math skills, difficult times lie ahead for them.

It is much like asking a carpenter to build a house and not providing him with tools.

Kids need materials that focus on these areas, and often time they are not given them in schools.

And we wonder why nationally only 3 out of every 10 eighth graders are proficient in math. Duh…

By: New Evidence that Charter Schools Boost Achievement « Kansas Education: A Project of the Flint Hills Center for Public Policy

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:41:22 +0000

[...] New Evidence that Charter Schools Boost Achievement Filed under: Charter schools — kansaseducation @ 11:41 am Jay P. Greene has assembled some evidence that charter schools improve student performance. [...]