So, you run a 'successful' charter school and want to have control of the preparation of your teachers. The answer? Start your own Graduate School of Education. That's the premise behind the Relay Graduate School of Education, housed at North Star Academy in Newark, NJ. Here's one take on it:
But is a school really successful if 50 enter 5^th grade, 1/3 are gone by 8^th grade and only a handful ever graduate?
Is this any indication of the quality of teaching, or pedagogy involved?  I won’t go so far as to suggest that what I personally might perceive as offensive, demeaning pedagogy is driving these attrition rates (okay… maybe I just did).