Are Community Schools the Future of Education Reform?
{In her new book, Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America’s Public Schools, education policy analyst and historian Diane Ravitch illustrates that these corporate education reforms have resulted in stagnant test scores, a narrowed curriculum, attacks on teachers, and public school closures, which devastate communities.
Though Bloomberg touted a 42% increase in graduation rates as a result of his reforms, his claim deserves greater scrutiny.
Pressured to increase graduation rates, administrators persuaded students to make up a year’s worth of failed classes by doing a worksheet packet, writing a few essays, and taking online quizzes where they could easily look up the answers. “After they submitted this mediocre work to their teachers, we were told to pass them,” the teacher said. It resulted in the high graduation rates Bloomberg is publicizing in his bid for the White House.}
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