USA Today profiles the Rocketship charter network. Rocketship has just seven schools now, but wants 2,000 schools in 50 cities with a total of one million students by then end of the decade. That would make Rocketship nearly as large as New York City schools.
So far the results are promising: Rocketship students score among the top performers on standardized tests. Story Highlights Most teachers are young and inexperienced Vast majority have attended prestigious colleges Teachers can do what they love best: Teach big ideas Gonzalo Campos, 8, is assisted by learning specialist Jessica Nazareno as he studies on a computer in the Learning Lab at the Rocketship Si Se Puede Adademy in San Jose.
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