So much for the idea of for-profit schools solving the NCLB problem.
So much for the idea of for-profit schools solving the NCLB problem.
Just about every tenet of business and driving profit is at odds with educational goals. Getting the highest price the market will bear? Product life cycle? Maximize efficiency?
Yes, but. . .
From your link:
The $200,000 a year superintendent became superintendent in 2008.The analysis of Ohio's test scores for grades 3-8 from 2005 through 2008 shows unusual spikes in grade level scores at an average of 87 schools per year. During that span, 18 schools in Greater Cincinnati show such patterns. . .
A charter school in Cincinnati's Riverside neighborhood showed such wild swings in test scores.
In 2006, Riverside Academy's fourth-graders' math scores shot up from the bottom fifth in the state to the top fifth, higher than 87 percent of their peers in Ohio. The next year, as fifth-graders, the class scores plunged to the 19th percentile in math. . .
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