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Curriculum & Instruction
The Diverse Schools Dilemma
Lots of parents favor sending their sons and daughters to diverse schools with children from a variety of racial and socioeconomic backgrounds. But can such schools successfully meet the educational needs of all those different kids? How do middle class children fare in these environments? Is there enough challenge and stimulation in schools that also struggle to help poor and immigrant children reach basic standards? Is there too much focus on test scores? And why is it so hard to find diverse public schools with a progressive, child-centered approach to education? These quandaries and more are addressed in this groundbreaking book by Michael J. Petrilli.
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Charter Schools
Leadership lessons from a brazen cheating scandal
Keeping ethics and results aligned
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Advanced Education
Raising the floor, but neglecting the ceiling
Gifted education, selective public schools, and the troubles of one of America's best high schools
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Advanced Education
Exam Schools: Inside America's Most Selective Public High Schools
What is the best education for exceptionally able and high-achieving youngsters? There are no easy answers but, as Chester Finn and Jessica Hockett show, for more than 100,000 students each year, the solution is to enroll in an academically selective public high school. Exam Schools is the first-ever close-up look at this small, sometimes controversial, yet crucial segment of American public education.
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Charter Schools
The case for public-school choice in the suburbs
“Customization” isn’t just for urban hipsters
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Charter Schools
Should CMOs really be in the business of ed reform?
The premise that charter management organizations can—or should—be effective advocacy vehicles rests on assumptions of questionable validity.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Next Generation Science Standards: Repairs needed
If at first you don't succeed...
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Curriculum & Instruction
GAO and George Miller don’t understand how special education works
No single public school is expected to serve students with every single type of disability. Except, apparently, public charter schools.
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Charter Schools
“Voucherizing Title I” is worth a shot
Why not try strapping Title I dollars to the backs of needy kids and letting them take it to the schools of their choice?
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Charter Schools
Your guide to the Romney education plan
Mike analyzes Governor Romney's education proposal on WSJ.com.
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Charter Schools
Fordham volunteers to pilot vetting process in Cleveland
Terry Ryan's writes today that Fordham would be willing to lead the way in going through a vetting process led by the Transformation Alliance in Cleveland.
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Charter Schools
Next stop for Louisiana: Accountability, done right
Louisiana became the latest state to embrace the introduction of school vouchers, but the legislative moxie it showed should stimulate a new conversation about private school choice and accountability.
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Charter Schools
10 years after Zelman, challenges still loom for voucher advocates
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision a decade ago didn't end the fight over private school choice, even though it should have caused states to rethink what they so sweepingly consider “aid” to sectarian institutions.
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Charter Schools
Wisconsin, school vouchers, and the perfidy of Tony Evers
Wisconsin's top educator has again used his position to imply that the Badger State is throwing more money at a voucher program he once called "morally wrong."
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Charter Schools
3 thoughts about the future of school integration
Mike provides his take on how to approach the integration issue from a recent panel discussion co-hosted by the Century Foundation, Howard University, and the Fordham Institute
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Charter Schools
Georgia House passes measure to test the “134-year-old status quo”
The Georgia House this week took another step toward exiling last spring’s state Supreme Court decision prohibiting the state approval of charter schools to the history books, where it belongs.
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Charter Schools
It SHOULD be hard to pull the parent trigger
The recent failure to enact a parent trigger in a California community is an example of how the system should work.
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Charter Schools
Santorum lends extremes to a movement that should find a center
The spotlight shining on the GOP candidate's educational philosophy is both a blessing and a curse for home-schooling parents and their advocates.
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Charter Schools
A price tag on misbehavior? An embattled Chicago charter network isn’t alone
A charter network's practice of charging fees for misbehavior has precedence in some Catholic school codes of conduct.