There are groups that say division says privatize education, and another group of people who believe charter-schools are not the solution to this problem. ... In the documentary it is shown that the problem has a solution, also known as charter-schools. ... It is shown that through longer school days and unique lesson plans Charter-schools showed greater test scores and student graduation rates than your average public school. Although Charter schools seem to be the solution, not everything was shown in documentary. ... Charter schools are supposed to be the answer to this problem by creati...

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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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" Present throughout the whole film are ways schools can change into becoming more efficient to produce highly skilled individuals like most privileged children and even better. Charter schools and the works of Michelle Rhee, the superintendent of schools in Washington D.C., prove that there are possibilities in making high functioning school systems. ... The documentary interviews many children in poverty or in tough financial situations that cannot afford boarding schools or privately owned schools. ... You can tell through the interactions with Guggenheim and the people he interviews t...

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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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