If you read Newsweek‘s new rankings of America’s best high schools and thought top-ranked BASIS Charter School sounded familiar, you’ve got a great memory.
Michael Sanera taught at BASIS, and he offered some lessons from that experience in a February 2007 Spotlight report. The opening of the press release might jog your memory:
North Carolina can avoid large, expensive
school buildings while working to improve student performance. That?s
the key finding in a new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report.?School buildings don?t educate children,? said Dr. Michael Sanera, JLF
Research Director and Local Government Analyst. ?Our students would be
better off if educators spent more time arguing about what goes on
inside school buildings than about building construction.?
