Charter-Like School Experiment Expands in Qatar
One-third of students in publicly financed schools will go to new models.
Even as the merits of charter schools are still debated in the United States, an ambitious, charter-like experiment in public education is fast emerging in the Middle East.
In the small Persian Gulf nation of Qatar, more than 30 autonomous, government-financed schools have opened since 2004. They offer an array of options to families accustomed to a rigid, highly centralized mode of education in schools run by the Ministry of Education. With another 13 of the so-called independent schools opening this fall, the new sector will serve about one-third of all students in government-financed schools, according to analysts from the RAND Corp.
The Santa Monica, Calif.-based research organization, which was hired in 2001 to help Qatar examine and overhaul its K-12 system, devised three models for the government to choose from. ( "U.S. Institutions Help Shape Education in Islamic World," ...
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