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Commentary
5.5.2016
Charter Schools

Test scores don't tell us everything, but they certainly tell us something about school quality and student success

Michael J. Petrilli

Editor's note: This post is the fourth in an ongoing discussion between Fordham's Michael Petrilli and the University of Arkansas's Jay Greene that seeks to answer this question: Are math and reading test results strong enough indicators of school quality that regulators can rely on them to determine which schools should be closed and which should be expanded—even

Commentary
5.4.2016
Charter Schools

One highway, two realities

Kevin Mahnken

A sixth grader in Mountain Brook, Alabama, can be considered one of the luckiest in the country, enrolled in a district where he and his classmates read and do math three grade levels above the average American student.

Commentary
5.4.2016
Charter Schools

Paying homage to charter schools' early trailblazers

Chester E. Finn, Jr., Brandon L. Wright

This is the first in a series of essays marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of America’s first charter school law. These commentaries are informed and inspired by our forthcoming book (co-authored with Bruno V.

Undefined
5.4.2016
Charter Schools

The Leicester City edition

On this week’s podcast, Mike Petrilli and Robert Pondiscio talk Trump, the role of test scores in determining school quality, and the opt-out movement. During the Research Minute, Amber Northern explains how the threat of NCLB sanctions reduced teacher absences.

Commentary
5.4.2016
Charter Schools

Rely on local actors, instead of faulty information, to make judgements about school quality

Jay P. Greene

Editor's note: This post is the third in an ongoing discussion between Fordham's Michael Petrilli and the University of Arkansas's Jay Greene that seeks to answer this question: Are math and reading test results strong enough indicators of school quality that regulators can rely on them to determine which schools should be closed and which should be expanded—even

Commentary
5.2.2016
Charter Schools

The weak predictive power of test scores

Jay P. Greene

The school choice tent is much bigger than it used to be. Politicians and policy wonks across the ideological spectrum have embraced the principle that parents should get to choose their children’s schools and local districts should not have a monopoly on school supply.

Commentary
4.27.2016
ESSA

Is there actually a national teacher shortage?

Kevin Mahnken

The whole point of the Every Student Succeeds Act was to revert financial and regulatory authority back to states after No Child Left Behind’s era of federal supremacy.

Commentary
4.27.2016
Charter Schools

Using Google Maps to get charter students to school

Outliers make for great stories and headlines, but they don’t do much for policy discussions—particularly school choice policy. Recently, there has been a flurry of headlines citing tales of “extreme sacrifice” by Detroit students in their efforts to commute great distances to the schools of their choice.

Commentary
4.20.2016
Charter Schools

School finance needs love too

Kevin Mahnken

The cause of school choice took a major step forward in Florida last week when Governor Rick Scott signed a bill codifying open enrollment and increasing funding for charter schools.

Commentary
4.13.2016
ESSA

ESSA oversight hearing: Full transcript

The Education Gadfly

On Tuesday, April 12, 2016, the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions held a full committee hearing titled “ESSA Implementation in States and School Districts: Perspectives from the U.S. Secretary of Education,” the first of a series of oversight hearings on the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).