Expanding the Supply of High-Quality Public Schools
Susan Colby, The Bridgespan GroupKim Smith, NewSchools Venture FundJim Shelton, The Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationSeptember 2005
Susan Colby, The Bridgespan GroupKim Smith, NewSchools Venture FundJim Shelton, The Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationSeptember 2005
Timothy J. Gronberg and Dennis W. JansenTexas Public Policy FoundationSeptember 2005
This week, the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) and the Bloomberg administration reached agreement on a new contract for New York City public school educators (who worked without any contract for nearly two years). So who won?
Kevin R. Kosar Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005
Education Intelligence AgencyOctober 3, 2005
What does the phrase "charter school" convey? A common working definition is an "independently operated public school of choice, freed from regulations but accountable for results." Yet all that such formulations of the charter school concept address are matters of structure, governance, and accountability.
As Paul Peterson explains in the current issue of Education Next, at the heart of No Child Left Behind's free tutoring provision is a blatant conflict of interest, even for districts "in need of improvement" that are not allowed to provide the tutoring themselves: "If parents
Thank you for the "schooled on class" piece, which ran in last week's Gadfly. I have lived in Wake County for the past 12 years, and my eldest child is in the county's public school system.
Australian parents worried about their children have less to fear from dingoes than from their country's schools. Federal Education Minister Brendan Nelson has released a report that contravenes pie-in-the-sky notions about the Land Down Under's outcomes-based curriculum.