Having just read Patrick Wall’s interesting interview with Tulane’s noted researcher, Douglas Harris, headlined “N.O. schools radically remade after Katrina,” I sincerely hope that his responses before they were “condensed and edited” contained some clarification of the researcher’s published comment that the charter school system is designed to “generate positive academic outcomes,” but not “critical thinking.”
The interview concludes with quoting Harris saying rightfully that “there are lots of things that are unmeasurable in education.” I hope he would agree that teaching students critical thinking skills is not one of those “immeasurable” things.