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Charter Schools
School transfers in a stratified system
Information, options, and access needed for school choice accountability. Jeff Murray
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Curriculum & Instruction
How test-based retention affects student outcomes
Mixed results, at least in the short term. Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.
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Charter Schools
The effects of KIPP on achievement and other outcomes
KIPP doubled in size and maintained its quality. Can this continue? Robert Pondiscio
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Charter Schools
Score one for low-income kids
More on the fate of U.S. Catholic schools. The boom in college affordability indices. And hopeful signs that the DOE is getting reasonable on teacher evaluations.
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How to widen the achievement gap
Mayor de Blasio's education initiatives: Right target, lousy aim. Robert Pondiscio
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Charter Schools
The Constitution Day edition
D.C.’s gender gap at top schools, mission statements, neighborhood school attendance boundaries, and test-based retention.
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Charter Schools
Examining district-charter collaboration grant implementation with interviews and site visits
The goals of specific collaboration activities are too often fuzzy. David Griffith
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Short- and long-term consequences of teachers' gender biases
Yes, there is a gender bias. And it favors boys in math. Dara Zeehandelaar, Ph.D.
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Charter Schools
Charter schools' effect on property values
Do zone-based priority admissions to charter schools affect home purchases? Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.
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Curriculum & Instruction
On Constitution Day, in search of the public mission of schools
When school boards describe their missions, they often overlook citizenship. Robert Pondiscio and Kate Stringer
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Dear OCR: Please back off
Plus: Charters take a stiff drink of reality, and reformers ask what we can learn from the "privileged poor."
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The real battle for Common Core begins
The overheated debate over Common Core has overshadowed the heavy lift being asked of America's teachers. Robert Pondiscio
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Book
Advanced Education
Failing Our Brightest Kids: The Global Challenge of Educating High-Ability Students
In Failing Our Brightest Kids, Chester E. Finn, Jr. and Brandon L. Wright argue that for decades, the United States has focused too little on preparing students to achieve at high levels.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Teaching 9/11
The first few weeks of September make up a sweet spot between seasons, with summer's last days of warmth and play mingling with the beginning a new school year. All that beauty and excitement can make it easy to forget the significance of today's date: Fourteen years have passed since the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania.
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The bank robber's secret to early childhood education
In the vast “how-to-fix-education” universe, early childhood programming seems to be the new elixir. Governors and mayors push it, as does our president, viewing it as a smart investment in the future. Many children come to school unprepared to learn, so we have to intervene earlier. Right? An instinctive response is to advocate for more early childhood education. Who can argue with that?
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Curriculum & Instruction
Teaching religious literacy in American classrooms
In Faith Ed: Teaching About Religion in an Age of Intolerance, Linda K.
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Charter Schools
The missing young men in most of Washington's top high schools
One of the biggest debates raging in education policy today is whether schools of choice are serving their fair share of the hardest-to-educate students or abandoning them to traditional public schools.
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Charter Schools
The Deflategate edition
The Washington State Supreme Court's attack on charters, New York State’s Common Core review, mindfulness in education, and charter schools' impact on Georgia property values.
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Charter Schools
The prison-to-school pipeline
An awkward name for a great idea; Dan Willingham on teacher training; and an education idea so good it needs to bust out of jail.
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Charter Schools
How "no-excuses" charter schools affect academic achievement
High-performing charters earn the approval of policy commentators and researchers alike. Kevin Mahnken
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Learning to improve: How America's schools can get better at getting better
Stop reforming and start improving. Lisa Hansel
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Charter Schools
Exploring the supply side of charter school openings
Surprisingly, parent dissatisfaction with neighborhood schools doesn’t contribute to charter school location. Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.
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The Common Core test wake-up call is here
Policy wonks have long known that just one-third of kids are on track for college. Now parents will know too. Michael J. Petrilli and Robert Pondiscio
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Charter Schools
A court decision only the Kremlin could love
The Washington State Supreme Court clung to antiquated ideas at the expense of our most vulnerable kids. Robin J. Lake
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How Ohio can make the transition to new test scores
An honest look at achievement should be addressed head on
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Curriculum & Instruction
"Hamilton" is a miracle of civics education
Today marks the first class in a yearlong seminar in civics and citizenship I teach at Democracy Prep Charter High School in Harlem. My goal is for students to see America as their own, a country worthy of their dreams and ambitions. I will assign readings and papers, lead discussions, and design tests. I should take them all to see Hamilton on Broadway as well.
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The breakfast flub
Plus: the false promise of college for all and the false crisis of teacher shortages.