Joanne W. Golann, "Scripting the Moves: Culture and Control in a "No-Excuses" Charter School" (Princeton UP, 2021)
New Books in Public Policy
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Did the No Excuses Style Education Have a Disruptive Effect?
The students felt that they were academically prepared, so that was a positive. But some of the main obstacles were these relationships with faculty. The other one they talked about a lot was this idea of handholding in the no excuse school. They weren't really prepared to kind of independently manage their time. And i think from his perspective, ah, he himself was a black man who had founded this school, you know, not from that community, but from a similar type of community. I did hear from a, the founder of the schoolwho read the book and took offence at it, actually wasit was insulted by the portrayal of the school.
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