Charter Schools and Their Enemies
by Thomas Sowell · first published 2020
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…restrictions and teach children in new ways. Overall, they're an excellent investment and the data shows that they work. They face many strong and sad political challenges. There's a recent book called Charter Schools and their Enemies that is a good read about the story of them.
on “Academic acceleration in gifted youth: a 35-year longitudinal study” ↗I think there have been enough studies now to show that the problem with most public schools in the U.S. have little or nothing to do with underfunding. Thomas Sowell's recent book, "Charter Schools and their enemies", shows that Charter schools with less funding can insanely outperform public schools they compete with in inner cities, even though the public schools have more funding per student. https://www.amazon.com/Charter-Schools-Enemies-Thomas-Sowell...
on “Lockdown, distance learning likely to increase social class achievement gap” ↗…partially-merit-based admission, to lottery-based admission. (And the court order from a few days ago, declaring this switch null and void.) 3. Thomas Sowell's books 'Economic facts and fallacies' and 'Charter schools and their enemies'. One of the points in these books (which include data) is that, when you adjust for things like parental educational level, number of parents in home, differences in outcomes between ethnic groups' career…
on “California moves to recommend delaying algebra to 9th grade statewide” ↗…student who goes to a school that is not part of that farm (charter, private whatever..) is not bringing in the cash. It is pretty straightforward economic self interest. I can recommend Sowell's book "Charter schools and their enemies" it lays out the setup quite well.
on “America’s School Districts Are Too Big” ↗I'll read yours if you read mine! I think Charter Schools and their Enemies may contain some stuff on CA schools but I haven't gotten that far yet. It starts out talking about NYC schools. It literally contains tables of data. I know that neither of us can come to a well-rounded…
on “Academic acceleration in gifted youth: a 35-year longitudinal study” ↗…continue to defend a man who has written dozens of full-length books explaining his positions. I'm not going to respond to your claims on charter schools because Sowell has just released a new book called 'charter schools and their enemies', which goes very in depth into his support of charter schools. I haven't read it yet, but I imagine it would contain his response to studies like the ones you posted.
on “Thomas Sowell interview” ↗