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Stephen Downes

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In a nutshell: "The real truth, say some observers, is that as yet there are no absolute truths about the charter-school movement." But "the changes they'll make to public education in the long run may be far more dramatic than can yet be imagined." Diversity, as John Stuart Mill pointed out a century ago, breeds innovation. But I will be very frank about this: these innovations are essentially experiments with involutary human subjects. When some (inevitably) fail, who will pick up the pieces? I don't see anyone addressing this point, at least, not in this article.

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