I just had a chance to tackle Steven Wilson's "Success at Scale in Charter Schooling," an AEI Working Paper that generated a good bit of buzz late last year. Wilson found that the vast majority of teachers in the best urban charters are graduates of the nation's most elite colleges. He concludes that if we want to scale up these great charters we have two options: Either recruit a much higher percentage of graduates of these colleges into the charter world or make the job of teaching in a "no excuses" charter easier. Personally, I found this conclusion extraordinarily frustrating, bordering on elitist...Read it here.
