Posts by Thomas Hatch
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Private, subsidized schools in Chile
Chilean private subsidized schools operate in a radically different environment from charter schools in the US. Since the imposition of the voucher-based system during the Pinochet dictatorship, virtually anyone, at any time, for any reason, could start and run a school.
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Proposals for change in Chile
The Chilean system has seen some remarkable educational improvements since 2000 at the same time that income inequality and segregation has increased.
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A conversation with Eric Schwarz about the evolution of citizen schools
I had a recent conversation with Eric Schwarz about the evolution of Citizen Schools. Eric is the founder of Citizen Schools and author of The Opportunity Equation: How Citizen Teachers Are Combating the Achievement Gap in America’s Schools.
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The school day: Singapore
With school starting again here in the United States, I’ve been thinking back to my children’s experiences at the end of the last school year in Finland that we chronicled last June. To get another perspective on what school is like in another country, I asked our colleague here at IEN, Paul Chua, to talk with me a bit about his son’s experiences in 2nd grade in Singapore.
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