Successful Charter
By
Here is a great article about a Charter School started in California whose premise for entrance into it was students with a less than “C” average in middle school and students who would be the first to go to college from their family if they got that far. The average ninth grader entered with fifth-grade reading and math skills. Many had been passed along from grade to grade without doing homework or mastering the basics.
Charter schools are independently run public schools freed from some regulation in exchange for improving performance. They used entrepreneurial methods by adjusting and using flexibility in curriculum and teaching methods to try ideas, to look at what wasn”t working and try something else. What kind of success rate to they have?
All graduates have gone on to four-year colleges.
Downtown College Prep doesn”t have a lot of easy students; it – staffed by non-union teachers who”ve chosen to teach there because they share the school – values and believe in the mission.
See Amazon for the book that was inspired by this school
No related posts.
You are very right admin about my article header. I forgot that not all readers automatically distinguish the different types of schools in their minds or that I am only talking about government schools.