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Michael Mayo, interim executive director of the Massachusetts Uphams Corner Charter School, writes a candid and emotional commentary in the Boston Globe about the revocation of his charter. In the piece he makes an argument against "paternalistic schools" (read KIPP) , a description coined by David Whitman of the Fordham Institute in his new book Sweating the Small Stuff: Inner-city Schools and the New Paternalism. My wife and I heard Mr. Whitman discuss his book at a CER event last week. Mr. Mayo writes:
I co-founded the school and have worked here since the day we opened. In a report provided to state officials, an evaluation panel characterized our school as an apathetic, confused, chaotic place. But the school described in the document is one that I don't recognize. We have no major discipline events, no graffiti, no noise in the hallways, a fully documented curriculum, and excellent teachers doing very good work.
Read the whole article here.
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