Letters To the Editor

To the Editor:

The Michigan Partnership for New Education and the professional-development schools it has nurtured over the last five years have been much more successful than your readers would realize from the article that appeared in the Dec. 6, 1995, issue ("Michigan Partnership To Promote Charter Schools").

Professional-development schools, which partner universities and public schools to improve teaching and learning, have been effective in their goal of bridging the gap between practice and theory and have prepared a great number of teachers for tomorrow's schools. One measure of proof is that funders have extended the original five-year plan for creating such schools at least another year to allow these exemplary schools to continue. It is then up to the districts and universities, as was originally proposed, to...