Raising Rigor, Getting Results: Lessons Learned from AP Expansion

David Wakelyn from the NGA Center for Best PracticesAugust 2009

Growth of school choice in the suburbs no cause for alarm

When charter schools were introduced in Ohio, they were presented as vital options for students in underperforming urban schools. Eleven years later, charters have broken through the borders of the "Big Eight" urban districts.

Who likes Jerry Weast the least?

I'm starting to think we should have a reader contest by that name. Last week I printed a letter from Joe Hawkins, a former Montgomery County official, explaining the underbelly of Weast's tenure.

Morning brief

My take on the Department's supposed pushiness, the states' need for cash, and the RTTT. MATCH's Goldstein, filling in at Eduwonk, on drafting off TFA.

Retooled - a dispatch from Dayton