Examining district-charter collaboration grant implementation with interviews and site visits
The goals of specific collaboration activities are too often fuzzy. David Griffith
The goals of specific collaboration activities are too often fuzzy. David Griffith
Do zone-based priority admissions to charter schools affect home purchases? Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.
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.
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.
High-performing charters earn the approval of policy commentators and researchers alike. Kevin Mahnken
Surprisingly, parent dissatisfaction with neighborhood schools doesn’t contribute to charter school location. Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.
The Washington State Supreme Court clung to antiquated ideas at the expense of our most vulnerable kids. Robin J. Lake
The charter sector’s reach should not exceed its grasp. Robert Pondiscio
In the CRPE debate between Paul Hill and Robin Lake on the issue of charter back-fill, Paul's right. Robin, as always, makes excellent points and raises legitimate concerns.
New Orleans’s schools ten years after Katrina, a new low for NYC’s infamous rubber rooms, and an education hunger strike.
A new report can’t see the forest for the trees. Robert Pondiscio
Six themes for 2016, and the candidates most likely to embrace them. Robert Pondiscio
Eight years ago, I offered my first public commentary about New Orleans’s post-Katrina reform strategy. In the spirit of personal accountability, I’m putting those words to the test, and I’ve asked six very smart, tough graders to check my work.
NOLA is one chapter in a much bigger story about the remaking of American urban public schooling. Andy Smarick
Diversity is important, but school quality ought to come first. Robert Pondiscio
If it becomes law, the federal government will have much less power than it does today. Michael J. Petrilli
Increasing quality seats for Queen City students
Teaching success, one school leader at a time
The example of a D.C. partnership that shows promise but needs more data. Clara Allen
The Education Gadfly
For years, I worried that I was auditioning to be the Edward Gibbon of urban Catholic schooling, chronicling the decline and fall of an invaluable, sprawling institution.
Let’s not break those things about Catholic schools that make them effective. Kathleen Porter Magee
Charter reform in the state budget
The Education Gadfly
A great way to get kids knowledge, skills, credentials, and work experience. Robert Schwartz
As my colleague Sara Mead has written, we recently completed an analysis of state policies that affect charter/pre-K collaboration. In the analys
Sara Mead and Ashley LiBetti Mitchel have done a great public service by providing a detailed study of how the early care and K–12 education policy landscape creates barriers to collaboration. It is good to see the Thomas B. Fordham Institute focusing its considerable knowledge and prestige on thinking about this opportunity.
Last week, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute released a new report authored by my colleague Ashley LiBetti Mitchel and me on charter schools and pre-K.