Quality Seen as Job One for Charters: Sector Explores Ways to Spur Rising Tide of Strong Results

Autor/in	Robelen, Erik W.
Titel	Quality Seen as Job One for Charters: Sector Explores Ways to Spur Rising Tide of Strong Results
Quelle	In: Education Week, 28 (2009) 22, S.1 (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0277-4232
Schlagwörter	Charter Schools; Educational Change; Public Education; Accountability; Academic Achievement; Public Schools; Elementary Secondary Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Charter school; Charter-Schule; Bildungsreform; Öffentliche Erziehung; Verantwortung; Schulleistung; Public school; Öffentliche Schule
Abstract	When President Barack Obama pledged on the campaign trail last September to step up federal aid for "successful" charter schools, he was touching on a matter of mounting concern: how to ensure better and more consistent quality across the growing charter sector. Amid worry about the mixed academic results for charter schools--and a belief that too many chronic low performers remain open--a variety of efforts are emerging to tackle the issue of quality. The focus on charter quality comes a quarter-century after A Nation at Risk declared that a "rising tide of mediocrity" was eroding U.S. education. While the 1983 report didn't advocate creating charter schools, which emerged in the early 1990s, it aimed to "generate reform of the educational system in fundamental ways." The landmark, though controversial, federal commission report is seen as helping to usher in not only the wide embrace of standards-based reform, but also other work to improve public education, including the rise of charters. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10