Diversity in charter schools?

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I assume you saw this new study, on the heals of last week’s UCLA study, reporting on a ‘lack of diversity’ in charter schools.

(lack of diversity in charter schools)

HMMM. What is this about? My view is that diversity in schools should serve education –better teaching and learning for all students–not a civil rights notion that is not teaching/methodology driven. This is the same issue that permeates special education’s push for ‘inclusion’–far too often implemented because it meets people’s belief system than promotes better teaching and learning for all kids.

Here, too, the fact that certain students attend certain schools does not ipso facto mean that there is a problem, that schools are excluding kids, that the schools are not effective, or that lawyers or government agencies need to step in to ‘fix’ it. Your thoughts?

About Miriam

Miriam Kurtzig Freedman, JD, MA—an expert in public education, focused on special education law— is a lawyer, author, speaker, consultant, and reformer. For more than 35 years, Miriam worked with educators, parents, policy makers, and citizens to translate complex legalese into plain English and focus on good practices for children. Now, she focuses her passion on reforming special education, with her new book, Special Education 2.0—Breaking Taboos to Build a NEW Education Law. Presentations include those at the AASA Conference, Orange County (CA), Boston College (MA), CADRE (OR), and the Fordham Institute (DC). Her writings have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Education Week, Education Next, Hoover Digest, The University of Chicago Law Review on line, DianeRavitch.net, and The Atlantic Monthly on line.

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