The eduformers like Gates and Broad as well as the edupreneurs like
Tom Vander Ark, along with their puppet Arne Duncan, devised
RTTT and in so doing made more than a couple states change their laws to get into the contest. Those laws made it easier for charter schools to get into the game, as they are supposedly the biggest part of the education solution.
Yesterday, Rick Hess
admitted we can't count on TFA or charters to do the job. No shit, Sherlock.
...as much as I love TFA and KIPP, their models have an enormous appetite for hard-working, talented, passionate youth--the problem is, there's only so much of that to go around. This tends to create natural limits to their rates of growth....
