In my personal experience, charter schools in the nyc area are working wonders. I think that we could learn some things from that program. https://en.wikipedia

In my personal experience, charter schools in the nyc area are working wonders. I think that we could learn some things from that program. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_schools_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_schools_in_the_United_... While I admit that there's a self-selection bias with these schools--kids with parents who care about their education will apply for them to attend these schools, and those kids are much more likely to do better in school regardless, which has a self-compounding effect of better classroom environments--the quality of education I see in charter schools tends to be higher than that of standard public schools. At least from what I've seen. Of course, the author also raises a lot of other points that aren't specific to schools: parents who are incarcerated, safety in the neighborhood, etc...