Responsive Education Solutions, Inc. (Responsive Ed) is a non-profit charter management organization headquartered in

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, in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Responsive Ed was established in 1998. In 2015, Responsive Ed schools had enrolled 9,208 students.

Operations

As of January 2016 Responsive Ed operates seventy campuses in the states of Texas and Arkansas and serves over 17,000 students. Responsive Ed previously operated campuses in Indiana but as of January 2016 no longer does so. Responsive Ed operates schools under the following names: *Premier High School—operating individualized self-paced curricula for high school students *Classical Academies—operating full-grade schools using classical education (including teaching of Latin) (as of 2018 ResponsiveEd is converting these schools to Founders Classical Academies) *Founders Classical Academies—similar to Classical Academies; curriculum is designed in coordination with

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Controversy

Max Brantley of the '' Arkansas Times'' wrote that the Walton Foundation had given "significant support" to Responsive Ed.Brantley, Max.
Arkansas charter school operator teaching creationism in Texas
" '' Arkansas Times''. Thursday January 16, 2014. Retrieved on February 5, 2014. In 2014

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of ''

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'' used an Open Records Request to obtain Responsive Ed's biology workbooks. According to Kopplin, the books "overtly and underhandedly discredit evidence-based science and allow

creationism Creationism is the religious belief that nature, and aspects such as the universe, Earth, life, and humans, originated with supernatural acts of divine creation. Gunn 2004, p. 9, "The ''Concise Oxford Dictionary'' says that creationism is 't ...

into public-school classrooms."Kopplin, Zack.
Texas Public Schools Are Teaching Creationism
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''. January 16, 2014. Retrieved on February 5, 2014.

References

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