A good example of this can be seen in the difference in most high schools in America. For instance when we look the educational standing of most schools in the country we find that the difference between a school with a higher academic average and that of a lower one is all in the method of teaching and the state of the learning environment. Take for instance charter schools. Before charter schools came along most urban kids had to make do with inexperienced teachers, bad equipment and very little attention. Put a D student from a learning environment like the one just described into a charter...

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I will example how he thinks schools should be run. ... A moment of truth, when their federal funds, intended to help the poorest children, are divided up and given to parents for tutoring or a charter school or some other hopeful option. ... The federal role in education is to foster excellence and challenge failure with charters and choice. ... At schools that are persistently dangerous, students will be allowed a transfer to some other school to a safer one. ... He wants our schools to care about the character of our children. ...

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Instead of the investing time to properly train their teachers, the U.S Department of Education have issued more mandated test, close public schools that are not performing according to their standards, replace the public schools with charter schools and fire the teachers (Buntin). The school are not performing because the U.S. ... Teachers are walking into schools with no idea on how to each or handle their classrooms. ...

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I also outline how I feel about what was said in the book considering I am currently in school to become an educator and a parent. ... "If we agree that parents have the right to choose the appropriate schools for their own children, then we must logically agree that open competition will generate the fairest and most equitable distribution of dollars" (Beck 164). There are private schools and charter schools, but if you do not have the means to send a child there, you will only be left with public schools, the monopoly, who receive the majority of government dollars, our taxes. In ...

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