http://www.varpartners.net/?p=1130 Supporting the most important work in the world… yours. Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:24:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.varpartners.net/?p=1130&cpage=1#comment-1183 » Blog Archive » 50 Essential Blog Posts on Education Reform Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:27:01 +0000 http://www.varpartners.net/?p=1130#comment-1183 [...] Charters show the way forward. This post describes the attributes of successful charter schools and posits the idea that all public schools should adopt the same qualities. [...] [...] Charters show the way forward. This post describes the attributes of successful charter schools and posits the idea that all public schools should adopt the same qualities. [...]

]]> http://www.varpartners.net/?p=1130&cpage=1#comment-1136 John Danner Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:14:11 +0000 http://www.varpartners.net/?p=1130#comment-1136 Except as EdSector (http://www.docstoc.com/docs/18483655/Growing-Pains-Scaling-Up-the-Nations-Best-Charter-Schools-Education-Sector-Reports) points out, the CMO's who are consistently closing the achievement gap don't have operating models which allow them to scale to thousands of schools. I really hope we see adoption of more efficient model's like Rocketship's hybrid model or anything else. We are not going to fund our way through this. Except as EdSector (http://www.docstoc.com/docs/18483655/Growing-Pains-Scaling-Up-the-Nations-Best-Charter-Schools-Education-Sector-Reports) points out, the CMO’s who are consistently closing the achievement gap don’t have operating models which allow them to scale to thousands of schools. I really hope we see adoption of more efficient model’s like Rocketship’s hybrid model or anything else. We are not going to fund our way through this.

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