Charter Schools

Does Nevada's new ESA law hold promise for kids?

Take a lesson from the cane toads

New tools for new challenges: Updating accountability for ESAs

Nevada should regulate ESAs like brothels

Nevada is a state of constant experimentation.

Nevada needs Neerav

NEW from Fordham: Redefining the School District in America

In Redefining the School District in America, Nelson Smith reexamines existing recovery school districts (RSDs)—entities in Louisiana, Tennessee, and Michigan charged with running and turning around their states’ worst schools—and assembles the most comprehensive catalog of simil

Rick Perry quotes about education

Lincoln Chafee quotes about education

Shocking: Presidential candidates are playing politics with the Common Core!

The Education Gadfly

How schools can solve Robert Putnam's poverty paradox

Poor kids need social capital; schools can help to provide it. Michael J. Petrilli

Martin O'Malley quotes about education

A voucher success story

Well-deserved well wishes

George Pataki quotes about education

Understanding incentives in charter authorizing

AEI just released a very good, short report on charter authorizing, “The Paperwork Pileup: Measuring the Burden of Charter School Applications.”

New Pathways to Careers and College: Examples, Evidence, and Prospects

How to identify and promote good CTE programs. Michelle Lerner

Rick Santorum quotes about education

Governor Markell's school choice column gets lost in the mail

We’ve learned a lot since 2001. Andy Smarick

The Paperwork Pileup: Measuring the Burden of Charter School Applications

A new AEI report raises the right questions—and promulgates some of the wrong answers. Kathryn Mullen Upton

The American Dream in crisis: A conversation with Robert Putnam

Last week, Fordham hosted Robert Putnam for a discussion of his new book Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis, which argues that a growing opportunity gap is leaving many American children behind.

Charter law reform in Ohio: Voices from the front lines

Leaders of high-performing schools address charter law reform efforts

MNPS Expenditures and Academic Outcomes: Long Term Opportunities for the District

For Nashville charters, funding disparities endanger progress. Kevin Mahnken

Bad, Better…Best

When bad schools close, families usually get something better.That’s what the Thomas B. Fordham Institute asserts in its April 2015 study School Closures and Student Achievement, using new research conducted in both traditional and charter public schools located in Ohio’s large urban school districts.

Andy Smarick on fixing Buckeye State charters

Editor's note: On May 6, Fordham contributor Andy Smarick delivered testimony before an Ohio education subcommittee on Senate Bill 148, a critical piece of legislation that would help clean up

The morality of school choice

Rewarding parents who make informed decisions. Matthew Levey

A successful formula: Shared curriculum and shared responsibility

Like pretty much everyone who is passionate about closing the achievement gap, I’m interested in Success Academies.

Why school closures matter

The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools has consistently believed that all schools should be held accountable for the performance of their students and that any school that isn’t perfor

School closures, student learning, and the new system of schools

A decade ago, I became fixated on what I saw as the biggest problem in K–12 education—that we continued to assign low-income inner-city kids to persistently failing schools.

A Shared Responsibility: Ensuring Quality Education in Every Cleveland Neighborhood

Where are quality school seats most needed?

Students make academic gains when low-performing schools close

New report findings challenge popular myth that closing schools hurts students academically

Gadfly Bites - 4/24/15

Charter law reform efforts get attention at all levels, but it's worth remembering that great charter schools can change lives