In the CRPE debate between Paul Hill and Robin Lake on the issue of charter back-fill, Paul's right. Robin, as always, makes excellent points and raises legitimate concerns.
New Orleans’s schools ten years after Katrina, a new low for NYC’s infamous rubber rooms, and an education hunger strike.
A new report can’t see the forest for the trees. Robert Pondiscio
Six themes for 2016, and the candidates most likely to embrace them. Robert Pondiscio
Eight years ago, I offered my first public commentary about New Orleans’s post-Katrina reform strategy. In the spirit of personal accountability, I’m putting those words to the test, and I’ve asked six very smart, tough graders to check my work.
NOLA is one chapter in a much bigger story about the remaking of American urban public schooling. Andy Smarick
Diversity is important, but school quality ought to come first. Robert Pondiscio
If it becomes law, the federal government will have much less power than it does today. Michael J. Petrilli
Increasing quality seats for Queen City students
Teaching success, one school leader at a time
The example of a D.C. partnership that shows promise but needs more data. Clara Allen
For years, I worried that I was auditioning to be the Edward Gibbon of urban Catholic schooling, chronicling the decline and fall of an invaluable, sprawling institution.
Let’s not break those things about Catholic schools that make them effective. Kathleen Porter Magee
Charter reform in the state budget
A great way to get kids knowledge, skills, credentials, and work experience. Robert Schwartz
As my colleague Sara Mead has written, we recently completed an analysis of state policies that affect charter/pre-K collaboration. In the analys
Sara Mead and Ashley LiBetti Mitchel have done a great public service by providing a detailed study of how the early care and K–12 education policy landscape creates barriers to collaboration. It is good to see the Thomas B. Fordham Institute focusing its considerable knowledge and prestige on thinking about this opportunity.
Last week, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute released a new report authored by my colleague Ashley LiBetti Mitchel and me on charter schools and pre-K.
Editor’s note: Last week, Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) sponsored an amendment that would have allowed Title I dollars to follow low-income children to the schools of their choice. It failed, 45–51.
Editor’s note: Chris Barbic announced today his decision to step down as the head of Tennessee’s Achievement School District, a position he has held since 2011.
Most of Gotham’s charters are already “backfilling” empty seats. Robert Pondiscio
Getting low-income kids into college is hard. Keeping them there to earn a degree is harder. Robert Pondiscio
Charter schools get the short end of the stick. Again. Michael J. Petrilli and Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.
In Pre-K and Charter Schools: Where State Policies Create Barriers to Collaboration, authors Sara Mead and Ashley LiBetti Mitchel examine thirty-six jurisdictions that have both charter schools and state-funded pre-K programs to determine where charters can provide state-funded pre-K.
In a new study released today from Fordham, authors Sara Mead and Ashley LiBetti Mitchel examine thirty-six jurisdictions that have both charter schools and state-funded pre-K programs to determine where charters can provide state-funded pre-K.
