http://educationnext.org/theyre-1-and-they-teach-to-the-test/ Education Next is a journal of opinion and research about education policy. Fri, 25 May 2012 18:44:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://educationnext.org/theyre-1-and-they-teach-to-the-test/comment-page-1/#comment-544 George Mitchell Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:04:50 +0000 http://educationnext.org/?p=49630711#comment-544 The question is whether and how schools such as this can reach larger numbers of students. Leaders at the Rocketship Mateo Sheedy charter school, about which I posted recently, want to reach thousands, not a few hundred, of San Jose's underperforming students. That is the kind of breakthrough that is needed. In the meantime, the continuing though isolated success of these "no excuses" schools is a cause for hope. The question is whether and how schools such as this can reach larger numbers of students. Leaders at the Rocketship Mateo Sheedy charter school, about which I posted recently, want to reach thousands, not a few hundred, of San Jose’s underperforming students. That is the kind of breakthrough that is needed. In the meantime, the continuing though isolated success of these “no excuses” schools is a cause for hope.

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