Building Better Schools10/15/2016 Another study finding no advantage or lower advantage for charter schools, this time in Texas after adjusting for socio-economics. https://www.the74million.org/article/8-things-we-learned-from-a-big-new-texas-study-on-public-charter-schools-and-students-future-income
BBS Articles Index
The Big Picture
The Three Goals of Public Education
Have High-Stakes Testing and Privatization Been Effective?
Why Conventional School “Reforms” Have Failed
Reformers Target the Wrong Levers of Improvement
Teacher and School Evaluations Are Based on Students' Test Scores
Charter Schools Are Not the Key to Improving Public Education
How Top Performers Build-and-Support
Ground Efforts in Unassailable Research
Provide an Engaging Broad-Based Liberal Arts Curriculum
Provide High-Quality Instruction
Build Teams and Focus on Continuous Improvement
Provide Adequate School Funding
Lessons Learned from Successful Districts
Exemplary Models of Build-and-Support
The California Context
California Policymakers and Educators Shift from Test-and-Punish
to Build-and-Support
How the California Reading Wars Got Resolved: A Personal Story
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