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Leadership lessons from a brazen cheating scandal
Keeping ethics and results aligned
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The case for public-school choice in the suburbs
“Customization” isn’t just for urban hipsters
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Should CMOs really be in the business of ed reform?
The premise that charter management organizations can—or should—be effective advocacy vehicles rests on assumptions of questionable validity.
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“Voucherizing Title I” is worth a shot
Why not try strapping Title I dollars to the backs of needy kids and letting them take it to the schools of their choice?
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Your guide to the Romney education plan
Mike analyzes Governor Romney's education proposal on WSJ.com.
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Fordham volunteers to pilot vetting process in Cleveland
Terry Ryan's writes today that Fordham would be willing to lead the way in going through a vetting process led by the Transformation Alliance in Cleveland.
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Next stop for Louisiana: Accountability, done right
Louisiana became the latest state to embrace the introduction of school vouchers, but the legislative moxie it showed should stimulate a new conversation about private school choice and accountability.
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10 years after Zelman, challenges still loom for voucher advocates
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision a decade ago didn't end the fight over private school choice, even though it should have caused states to rethink what they so sweepingly consider “aid” to sectarian institutions.
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Wisconsin, school vouchers, and the perfidy of Tony Evers
Wisconsin's top educator has again used his position to imply that the Badger State is throwing more money at a voucher program he once called "morally wrong."
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3 thoughts about the future of school integration
Mike provides his take on how to approach the integration issue from a recent panel discussion co-hosted by the Century Foundation, Howard University, and the Fordham Institute
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Georgia House passes measure to test the “134-year-old status quo”
The Georgia House this week took another step toward exiling last spring’s state Supreme Court decision prohibiting the state approval of charter schools to the history books, where it belongs.
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It SHOULD be hard to pull the parent trigger
The recent failure to enact a parent trigger in a California community is an example of how the system should work.
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Santorum lends extremes to a movement that should find a center
The spotlight shining on the GOP candidate's educational philosophy is both a blessing and a curse for home-schooling parents and their advocates.
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A price tag on misbehavior? An embattled Chicago charter network isn’t alone
A charter network's practice of charging fees for misbehavior has precedence in some Catholic school codes of conduct.
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Graduating to a new conversation of parental choice
Choice Words' new editor Adam Emerson outlines the need for a reinvented dialogue on school choice.
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Charter school teachers would be hit hard by new Treasury Department ruling on pensions
Guest bloggers Michael Podgursky, Stuart Buck, and Renita Thukral explain why proposed regulations would have a "dramatic and detrimental effect" on the ability of charters to accomplish their education goals.
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The Gadfly Daily’s week in review
Writers on the Gadfly Daily blogs analyzed issues from around the country this week, discussing everything from the lessons that the Louisiana Recovery School District has to offer to the tough talk coming from
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The challenges of charter-district collaboration
Cooperation between charter and district schools has potential, but Fordham’s bloggers highlighted a few reasons for concern.
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Negotiate from a position of strength
Mike channels realpolitik to analyze district-charter collaboration.
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Fordham Institute names Adam Emerson its “school choice czar”
Meet the newest member of the Fordham team, and the editor of the Choice Words blog.
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School choice, subsidiarity and the common good
Guest blogger Adam Emerson explains why education reformers need to learn the value of subsidiarity.
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News of the World: rocketships, suburban charters, parent triggers, cheating, merit pay -- and even Winerip does good
Okay, it's not exactly what Rupert might condone, but since he and his crew are preoccupied and because our News Nuggets shop has plenty to do, I offer some education highlights from my weekend reading:
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Better Choices: Charter Incubation as a Strategy for Improving the Charter School Sector
In this policy brief, Public Impact??s Joe Ableidinger and Julie Kowal examine the merits of the incubation model, outline specific strategies for supporting it, and profile organizations around the U.S. putting it into practice. The authors explain that through the strategic recruitment, selection, and training of talented leaders???and support of them as they launch or expand new charter schools???incubators offer charter school advocates an important tool in guaranteeing quality school choice.
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Don???t blame D.C.???s woes on school choice
DC schools have serious issues, but increased school choice is part of the solution, not the root of the problem.