http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/stories/person/1656 Stories and external links referencing a person (RSS) en http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/culture-society/articles/charter-schools-get-high-grades <!--paging_filter--><p>For many parents, educators, and policy-makers in the United States, charter schools - innovative public schools that are free from much bureaucratic oversight but must "compete" for students in order to retain their charters - have held out enormous promise as a public alternative to failing traditional schools. So when the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the nation's second-largest teachers' union, published a study in August 2004 that found students at charter schools performing worse than their peers at traditional public schools, more than a few hopes were dashed.</p> <p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/culture-society/articles/charter-schools-get-high-grades">read more</a></p> Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:35:27 -0400 70652986 3502 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu