A charter school was charged with 15,243 rule violations in one year. What gives? Joanne W. Golann, a sociologist and ethnographer at Vanderbilt University, has written one of the deepest accounts of life in a demanding public charter school I have ever read. She shows teachers enforcing strict rules for behavior. She looks closely at scripted lessons for students mostly from low-income Black and Hispanic families. Golann spent much time observing and sometimes teaching in 2012 and 2013 at the school. She conforms to scholarly practice by not identifying it, instead calling it Dream Academy. Eighty percent of its students were from low-income families, yet its level of achievement was much higher than that ... Continue reading... https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...0c5f2c-be55-11eb-b26e-53663e6be6ff_story.html Find in Internet Archives [google]A charter school was charged with 15,243 rule violations in one year. What gives?[/google]
