Here are comments submitted today to the State Education Department on the proposed New American Academy charter, opposing the granting of this charter. The school is based on the model of an existing public school in Brooklyn, that places 60 small children in a room with four teachers, instead of providing them with the proven model of a class size of 15.
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Nice analysis of terrible and destructive learning conditions being marketed as educationally sound. The phrase "research based" has been so misused by the reformy types it is beginning to have no meaning.
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