Education researcher and Indiana University professor Chris Lubienski joins us to talk about what charter schools are, how they were and are created, what their promise was, how they are marketed in the US and abroad, and what the research shows about their effectiveness, especially in Indiana where the state has encouraged their formation in the name of school choice. Chris discusses Horace Mann's ideas about a Common School and how that has played out in the modern era, as well as data regarding segregation and the achievement gap. An accessible and clear-eyed episode about a controversial topic.

The resource Chris mentions:
https://nepc.colorado.edu/

Follow Chris on Twitter:
@CLub_edu

Thoughts? Comments? Potshots? Contact the show at:
https://www.discreetguide.com/

Follow or like us on podomatic.com (it raises our visibility :)
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/deardiscreetguide

Support us on Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/discreetguide

Follow the host on Twitter:
@DiscreetGuide

The host on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferkcrittenden/