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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
Three pollsters walked into a school…
Triangulating a trifecta of survey results
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Charter Schools
By the Company It Keeps: Neerav Kingsland
Andy Smarick interviews Neerav Kingsland, CEO of New Schools for New Orleans
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Charter Schools
By the Company It Keeps: Derrell Bradford
Andy Smarick interviews Derrell Bradford, executive director of Better Education for Kids
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Charter Schools
12 key takeaways from the national charter schools conference
...And only a few shameless Fordham plugs
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Charter Schools
Big takeaways from CREDO’s 2013 charter study
Four years after the first report’s release, CREDO is out with an update
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Charter Schools
Some early-summer reads, part 2
The second half of Andy's compilation of must-read recent publications
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Charter Schools
By The Company It Keeps: Mashea Ashton
Andy Smarick interviews Mashea Ashton, CEO of the Newark Charter School Fund
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Charter Schools
By the Company It Keeps: Robin Lake
Andy Smarick's latest interview is with Robin Lake, director of the Center for Reinventing Public Education (CRPE)
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Charter Schools
Keep charter achievement in perspective
Observe what a low achievement bar these kinds of comparisons generally set
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Charter Schools
There’s a better way to unlock parent power than the parent trigger
In favor of good old-fashioned school choice
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Charter Schools
The moderate extremism of relinquishment
Neerav Kingsland of New Schools for New Orleans outlines the basics of Relinquishment
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Charter Schools
Replication, rural, resistance, reauthorization, and revamping
Andy Smarick's picks of the week
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Charter Schools
Chris Barbic, Nelson Smith, Landry Clarke & Gene Gene the Dancing Machine
Smith's new brief tells the story of the still-young Achievement School District in Tennessee
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Charter Schools
Proud to be a private public school parent
There's public, and then there's “public.”
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Charter Schools
Budget, KC, Dallas, anthropologists, and the zen of Bill Murray
Sage advice and news tidbits from Andy Smarick
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
Agitating, standards, charters, teachers, and widgets
Andy's picks, from Kansas City to CALDER
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Charter Schools
The good news from Pakistan
A new book from Sir Michael Barber, noted British education reformer, describes an effort to improve education in rural Pakistan
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Charter Schools
Quixote, jobs, innovation, and Catholic schools
A collection of news and announcements
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Charter Schools, Governance
Governance in the charter school sector: Time for a reboot
When charter schools first emerged more than two decades ago, they presented an innovation in public school governance. No longer would school districts enjoy the “exclusive franchise” to own and operate public schools, as chartering pioneer and advocate Ted Kolderie explained. Charters wouldn’t gain all of the independence of private schools—they would still report to a publicly accountable body, or authorizer—but they would be largely freed from the micromanagement of school boards, district bureaucracies, and union contracts. Autonomy, in exchange for accountability, would reign supreme.
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
SIG, tests, and state legislative proposals
Andy Smarick's pick of the news
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Accountability & Testing, Charter Schools
Searching for Excellence: A Five-City, Cross-State Comparison of Charter School Quality
Conducted jointly by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and Public Impact, the new research study Searching for Excellence: A Five-City, Cross-State Comparison of Charter School Quality sheds light on charter performance — in Albany, Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, and Indianapolis. These cities were highlighted because they have relatively large numbers of charter schools and charter school students. These are cities where charters have been part of the educational landscape for a decade or more. Read this exciting report today!
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
Educator evals, assessments, closures, and authorizing
Keeping up with education headlines
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
A few good reads
Andy Smarick's pick of recent education news
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Charter Schools
The Alternative
The second of two posts on the past, present, and future of urban schooling
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Charter Schools
Kojo, Mike, and Abigail on shifting school boundaries
Earlier today on WAMU, Washington’s local NPR station, Kojo Nnamdi hosted a fascinating discussion on school boundaries, charter schools, and choice
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Charter Schools
We can change
The first of two posts on the past, present, and future of urban schooling
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Charter Schools
Is the red tape a red herring?
Many proponents of private school choice take for granted that schools won’t participate if government asks too much of them; but is this assumption justified?