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School choice: The end of the beginning
I’ve dedicated a big part of my career to expanding school choice. I think it’s the right thing to do for kids, families, educators, neighborhoods, civil society, and much else. In fact, I’m convinced that years from now, students of history will be scandalized to learn that we used to have a K–12 system defined by one government provider in each geographic area.
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A guide for K–12 gardeners
Fordham’s exceptional study illuminates school choice in thirty cities and how it can improve nationwide. By Frederick M. Hess
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Charter Schools
Coming soon - Quality in Adversity: Lessons from Ohio's best charter schools
Listening to some of the most important voices in the charter school debate
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Public private districts and open enrollment
Many of Ohio's best districts are closed to open enrollment
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More than meets the eye: Ohio’s unimpressive charter law ranking
Looking behind the latest NAPCS rankings
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Governing urban schools in the future: What’s facing Philadelphia and Pennsylvania
Urban school governance is a moving target, in part because it’s pretty clear that there’s no best way to handle it and in part because no change in a city’s arrangements ever works as well as its promoters hoped.
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Rays of hope in the Sunshine State
On the same day that Jeb Bush unveiled his education agenda, thousands of families in his home state marched in Tallahassee to support some of the very school choice programs he championed in office.
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Court watching
The ink is dry on the bill, the interest groups are mollified, and the lobbyists have made the first payments on their tastefully appointed condominiums. Now that the Every Student Achieves Act has become the law of the land, it’s time to examine its implications for our federal education bureaucracy.
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America's most disadvantaged students need real accountability, not ideology
In a recent blog post, Jason Bedrick of the Cato Institute attributes the apparently troubling results of a recent study on Louisiana’s private school voucher program to the theory that “[r]egulations intended to guarantee quality might well have had the opposite effect.
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Louisiana's voucher program and student achievement
A new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research examines how Louisiana’s statewide voucher program affects student achievement. The Pelican State expanded its program statewide in 2012; by 2014, twelve thousand students had applied for more than six thousand slots to attend 126 private schools.
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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
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My favorite writing of 2015
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.
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On the road to better accessibility, autonomy, and accountability in charter schools
Fourteen states have seen positive policy changes since NACSA’s inaugural report last year. By Jamie Davies O’Leary
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Catholic School Renaissance: A Wise Giver's Guide to Strengthening a National Asset
In time for Christmas, a how-to book for philanthropists who want to bring new life to Catholic schools. By Kate Stringer
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Curriculum & Instruction, Charter Schools
Education posts I wish I'd written this year
The best compliment I can pay a fellow education blogger is to confess professional jealousy. By Robert Pondiscio
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Charter Schools
You’re invited! Fordham report release: Lessons from Ohio’s best charter schools
Celebrate National School Choice Week in Columbus on January 27
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Charter Schools
On the Road to Better Accessibility, Autonomy, and Accountability: State Policy Analysis 2015
Rankings against policy recommendations
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
What I saw at Success Academies
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.
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
The effect of public and private schooling on anti-Semitism
Attending a religious school might reduce bigotry. Kevin Mahnken
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Special education trends in charter schools
More myth-busting evidence about serving kids with special needs. Jamie Davies O'Leary
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Curriculum & Instruction, Charter Schools
If you build it, they will come
The creation of Brooklyn Ascend charter school, textbooks in Texas, and substitute teachers in impoverished schools.
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Charter Schools
Resistance is futile
For school choice advocates, victory is inevitable. David Griffith
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Charter Schools, Governance, Private School Choice
America's Best (and Worst) Cities for School Choice
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.
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Don't let shuttered schools rot
There’s something about the sight of an abandoned school that tears at your heart.
