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Commentary
6.15.2016
Advanced Education

Life lessons from a grandfather's wisdom

During my first year at the University of South Carolina, I often purchased a morning cup of coffee in the university’s student union. Early one morning, I spotted a young man dressed in a business suit and bow tie carrying on an animated conversation with a group of undergraduates.

Undefined
6.8.2016

The Ali edition

On this week’s podcast, Mike Petrilli and Checker Finn discuss the growing left-right schism in education reform, whether we need more than just "no-excuses" charter schools for poor kids, and a Maryland county’s attempt to diversify its gifted programs. During the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines the effectiveness of SEED DC, the nation’s first public, urban, college-preparatory boarding school.

Commentary
6.8.2016
Charter Schools, Advanced Education

Charter Icahnoclast

We here at Fordham are really jazzed about the potential of high-quality career and technical education (CTE).

Commentary
6.8.2016
Advanced Education

Standard deviations: Creative writers take standardized writing tests?

Students at the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology produce the highest SAT and ACT scores in the nation. All of the students take at least one Advanced Placement exam, with 97 percent of them scoring well enough to receive college credit. But those high scores don’t come without intellectual cost.

Commentary
6.7.2016
Charter Schools

We need to take a closer look at charter school graduation rates

A high school diploma is a critical marker in the transition to adulthood that affects labor participation, social mobility, and opportunities for success. The good news is that high school graduation rates reached an all-time high of 82 percent in spring 2014. The overall graduation rate for charter public schools, however, fell short of that number by ten points.

Commentary
6.7.2016

Hillary Clinton quotes about education

Brandon L. Wright

Hillary Clinton is America’s first woman to be a presidential nominee for a major political party. In November, she’ll take on GOP nominee Donald Trump and the Libertarian Party’s Gary Johnson (and his running mate William Weld). Clinton has been a public figure since 1979, when she became the First Lady of Arkansas, so she has said much about education over the last thirty-seven years. Here are some of her more recent views.

Commentary
6.1.2016
ESSA

The ESSA honeymoon is over

With our laser-like focus on American K–12 education (and the even narrower territory of American K–12 reform), it can be easy to forget that good schooling can be found in many forms—and many settings.

Undefined
6.1.2016

The Family Feud edition

On this week’s podcast, Mike Petrilli and Alyssa Schwenk discuss the debate sparked by Robert Pondiscio’s recent article, the Department of Education’s proposed ESSA regulations, and Kansas’s school funding debacle. During the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines whether a teacher observation framework can affect student outcomes.

Commentary
6.1.2016
Charter Schools

Gary Johnson quotes about education

Brandon L. Wright

Gary Johnson, the former two-term governor of New Mexico, is the Libertarian Party’s presidential nominee.