It’s time to stop talking about Ohio’s federal charter school grant
Money to expand high-performing charters should not be jeopardized by bad actors
Money to expand high-performing charters should not be jeopardized by bad actors
As 2015 was coming to a close, I compiled a list of my fifty favorite reads of the year. You can find them all here.
Fourteen states have seen positive policy changes since NACSA’s inaugural report last year. By Jamie Davies O’Leary
In time for Christmas, a how-to book for philanthropists who want to bring new life to Catholic schools. By Kate Stringer
The importance of making history an academic priority once again. By Robert Pondisico
The best compliment I can pay a fellow education blogger is to confess professional jealousy. By Robert Pondiscio
Celebrate National School Choice Week in Columbus on January 27
There is a fast track in American education. And we’re getting far too few African American students onto it. By Brandon L. Wright and Chester E. Finn, Jr.
Some say the world will end in fire. Some say in ice. But if you’re pressed for time and want to end all intelligent life quickly, nothing beats a task force.
Rankings against policy recommendations
On Wednesday, I had the pleasure of visiting Success Academy Harlem 1 and hearing from Eva Moskowitz and the SA staff about their model. I’m not going to venture into the thorny stuff about SA here. What I will say is that their results on state tests are clearly impressive, and I doubt that they’re fully (or even largely) explained by the practices that cause controversy.
Attending a religious school might reduce bigotry. Kevin Mahnken
More myth-busting evidence about serving kids with special needs. Jamie Davies O'Leary
The creation of Brooklyn Ascend charter school, textbooks in Texas, and substitute teachers in impoverished schools.
For school choice advocates, victory is inevitable. David Griffith
Interstate test comparability, teacher absenteeism in high-poverty schools, special education in charter schools, and school choice in thirty American cities.
As states have implemented college and career readiness standards, it has sometimes been assumed that most of the work and attention has occurred at the elementary grades. In truth, many states have been working for some time to ensure that grade twelve prepares all students for post-secondary success.
More than twelve million American students exercise some form of school choice by going to a charter, magnet, or private school——instead of attending a traditional public school.
There’s something about the sight of an abandoned school that tears at your heart.
We’ve seen a lot of hand wringing over math achievement in this country. Our students continue to underperform against their peers in other countries, lighting a fire under educators and politicians to push new STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) programming in schools. While these panicked efforts have admirable intentions, they are mostly barking up the wrong tree.
How do charters stack up next to district schools?
How new and innovative financing structures might fix the private school supply chain. Damien Schuster
In refusing to reconsider its September ruling that public charter schools are unconstitutional and not entitled to receive public funds, the Washington State Supreme Court is bringing the state one step closer to shutting the door on promising educational opportunities for disadvantaged Washington students.
A new study suggests that they don’t. But mind the details. Kevin Mahnken
STEM interest doesn’t necessarily translate into STEM aptitude. Robert Pondiscio
The uncertain future of school choice, Louisville’s school discipline crisis, and the passing of one of reform’s brightest lights.
A threat to accountability for both charters and district schools Vladimir Kogan
How Ohio currently regulates online schools and how it can do better
Untangling a particularly convoluted strand of funding in the charter school realm