For almost five years now, the Center for Reinventing Public Education and Mathematica have teamed up to assess the
We’ve long rued the state of American science education—and crammed worrisome evidence from
Demand for a school was highly correlated with its quality. Baking a successful school-choice soufflé is challenging. The ingredients are hard to come by: Schools must be high performing while simultaneously offering options to a diverse parent base. And the recipe is fussy: Navigating the system should be easy and fair. There can be no inherent incentives to game the system.
No public school serves all disabilities
Catching up on some reading, Peter discovered some stories that may be old news to some of you, but merit a second look.
Guest blogger Paul Gross addresses the enduring (and false) belief that scientific reasoning is separable from the content of science.
Children across Ohio will benefit if charters and school districts can end their feud and find ways to maximize resources across their schools.
Current spending patterns show that the district isn’t systematically directing more dollars toward neediest students today.
As the 2011-12 school year ends, we want to highlight the unique events and successes that happened in our schools this year.
Three out of four (73.5 percent) of the national 2009 graduating class successfully graduated high school in four years.
Readers probably won’t find an end-all be-all solution to teacher evaluation in this report. What you will find is a starting place—to brainstorm which methods best fit your objectives.
The report challenges the choice system as it currently stands, saying that existing school choice programs, while delivering slightly better outcomes, are not challenging the public school sector as they need to be.
The Center for Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) takes a look at how strong charter management organizations manage staff to maximize the instructional and cultural coherence of the school.
For all the talk of gaps in achievement, opportunity, and funding between ethnic and racial groups in American education, a different divide may also be splitting our schools and our future. In his acclaimed and controversial recent book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010, scholar/pundit/provocateur Charles Murray describes a widening class schism.
Many of us have probably dozed off in class, and now $1.1 million in grants will go toward keeping classroom engagement alive.
A few suggestions for voucher accountability
Peter reviews the essays in Board's Eye View's recent series on education governance.
Why Eva Moskowitz is right to challenge New York's enrollment quotas for students with special needs.
In the end, the “just right” theory of reading instruction is focused on the right goal—having students read independently and with deep understanding. But the way it tries to get there may be exactly what is holding our students back from achieving at the levels they need.
Philosophical gravitas from an unexpected source.
The time for tinkering has passed
Times are tough for the nation’s largest union: Fresh off Scott Walker’s recall victory and a
Imagine, for a moment, a policy that allows learning-disabled students to take their share of federal IDEA funds to the public or private schools of their choice. It’s outlandish to suppose that we would discontinue the use of state assessments given to most of these students. But that’s the reality in Florida.
The growth in capital available to schools from private investors is an underrated success story for the charter movement.
