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Wednesday, August 5th, 2015

“Reform” makes broken New Orleans schools worse: Race, charters, testing and the real story of education after Katrina

Author:     Jennifer C. Berkshire
Source:     Salon
Publication Date:     Monday, Aug 3, 2015 02:57 AM PDT
 Link: “Reform” makes broken New Orleans schools worse: Race, charters, testing and the real story of education after Katrina
Stephan:   Here is the sorry saga of the Charter model of education, as it has played out in New Orleans. Charter schools remind me of B.F. Skinner's Materialist Behaviorism model, and his Box. It all makes perfect sense until you realize that both are models concerned with the intellect, but with no consideration of human consciousness and, therefore, simplistic and absurd.
Students wait in line at ReNEW SciTech Academy, a charter school in New Orleans, Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014. Nine years after Hurricane Katrina, charter schools are the new reality of public education in New Orleans. The vast majority of public school students will be attending a charter school established by a state-run school district created in the wake of the storm. Credit: AP Photo/Gerald Herbert

Students wait in line at ReNEW SciTech Academy, a charter school in New Orleans, Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014. Nine years after Hurricane Katrina, charter schools are the new reality of public education in New Orleans. The vast majority of public school students will be attending a charter school established by a state-run school district created in the wake of the storm.
Credit: AP Photo/Gerald Herbert

Here is all you need to know about the New Orleans schools before Hurricane Katrina hit, 10 years ago this summer: They were awful. The schools were awful, the school board was awful, the central office was awful—all of them were awful. At a recent conference held to […]

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