Joanne W. Golann, "Scripting the Moves: Culture and Control in a "No-Excuses" Charter School" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Did the No Excuses Style Education Make the Transition to College Harder?
The students felt that they were academically prepared, but some of the main obstacles were relationships with faculty. The other one they talked about a lot was this idea of handholding ome kind of in the no excuse of school. They had gotten so many structures, so when these structures were removed, they they weren't really prepared to kind of independently manage their time. And i don't know how much the school itself has changed its practices. A, but i think, from my prospective, i certainly hope i did, ad perhaps could have done more"
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