The big one
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Two articles about charter schools in this week's Economist are online here (Chicago) and here (New York).
Kevin Carey mercifully closes our debate, not by addressing ideas but by instead calling my specific impugning of unions "vague" and concluding that I suffer from an incurable anti-union ailment. (Alas, my doctor prescribed Zithromax, but it hasn't worked.)
John Merrow, writing in today's Wall Street Journal, explains that "public education lives in an upside-down universe where student out
From The Tallahassee Democrat: "According to the Florida Department of Education, more students statewide are writing at or above grade level." (The results are here.)
One wonders: To laugh or to cry? Break down test-score data by the ethnicity of Asian students?
Backed against the wall by recent labor controversies, the United Federation of Teachers has launched a counter-offensive:
Most ed reformers are drawn to their calling by one, or sometimes both, of two considerations: civil rights and economics. The first concern addresses the achievement gap between mostly white, upper-class students and their mostly minority, low-income peers. That this gap exists--and that it's shameful and unacceptable--is undeniable.
Over at the Cato blog , Andrew Coulson reports that New Jersey lawmakers have taken a step toward approving a tax-credit scholarship program, muc
Amidst criticism over her principal firings, D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee has dismissed the principal of the school that her own kids attend.
The Center for Education Reform released an analysis of 2006 charter school funding , claiming that charters receive 39 percent less funding than district schools, on average. That's a huge, unfair difference, if it's true.
New Jersey education officials have admitted that an African-American vice principal inappropriately punished 15 Hispanic elementary students in Camden.