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There are plenty of other examples
I remember being lectured by the “smart set” in education that KIPP would never have more than fifteen schools and was consequently more or less a distraction I was naïve to even be interested in. (The same people said Teach For America would be perhaps a boutique program of 500 teachers a year if they were really lucky.) By extension, most people thought Bill Clinton’s goal of 3,000 charter schools was just throwaway political hyperbole.
Today, there are more than 7,000 Laos Phone Number Data charter schools (and about 275 of them are KIPP schools). Are all charters fantastic? No. But many are, and the data show, on average, that they’re getting better and continue to be a good bet as a policy. More people are going to college, too, and more importantly, graduating. 
Again, this is not an unvarnished blessing, given the mixed quality and return on investment of higher education, but is also, on average, for the good—especially for low-income students in quality higher education programs. Standards are also improving. There is plenty to fault in President Obama’s education record, but it seems inarguable that, in aggregate, state standards were better in 2016 than in 2008, and he and Arne Duncan played a role in nudging that along. Standards are also more specific and actionable for teachers and more often aligned with curriculum. We’re also seeing a boom in high-quality curricula hitting the market, and the focus on curriculum is a welcome and noteworthy change. In addition to being good for students, curricular support makes the job of teaching more sustainable. |
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