So a study done by Stanford Uni says charter schools are no magic bullet. Conflict of interest maybe?
I'm not saying the study is wrong.
What? Charter schools compete with K-12 public schools, not with a private university.
Not teachers' unions, unless you think everyone is in the pocket of teachers' unions. What would a university (public or private, but especially private), and especially a top university like Stanford that won't be sending its graduates into teaching unless it's via Teach for America, have to gain from supporting teachers' unions?
Stanford actually does have a school of education, unlike most top private universities (Columbia is the other major exception I know of). But still, I don't understand dead0man's point at all -
individual academic researchers certainly have their biases and ideologies, but the idea that "Stanford" as a whole is biased in favour of any particular "side" in this controversy is bizarre, as does the idea that researchers at a large university in general have some unified point of view.
