Does Student Attrition Explain KIPP's Success?
Robert PondiscioA new Mathematica study persuasively puts to rest a common charge leveled at KIPP charter schools: that their test score gains are largely attributable to the attrition of their lowest-performing students. The authors compare nineteen KIPP middle schools to district schools and find no meaningful difference among those who walk in the door of each type of school.
The hidden half: School employees who don't teach
Chester E. Finn, Jr.Why do American public schools spend more of their operating budgets on non-teachers than almost every other country in the world, including nations that are as prosperous and humane as ours? We can’t be certain. But we do know this:
A fresh start for low expectations
Jessica PoinerThe Freshman Fresh Start program seems at odds with the high academic bar being set for students in CMSD.
Could Paul Ryan’s poverty plans help break Washington gridlock in 2015?
Michael BrickmanWith fewer than one hundred days left until the 2014 election and with control of the U.S. Senate a virtual coin toss, few are focusing on the potential impact a Republican takeover might have. Should Republicans get the keys to the Senate and gain control of both houses, they will still have find common ground with President Obama (and one another) if they are to get anything accomplished.