The right way to develop greenfield schooling
Is universal school choice necessary to encourage innovative models of private education?
Is universal school choice necessary to encourage innovative models of private education?
Columbus Collegiate Academy (CCA) opened in 2008, and it has now launched the newly-formed United Schools Network, a nonprofit charter management organization (CMO).
The Southern Regional Education Board's call for a fair system of funding for charters is an encouraging sign.
Two timely takes on a tricky topic
Yes, let’s find ways to drive better discussions in the classroom. But let’s also recognize that what makes those discussions work in America’s elite private schools is that they are built atop of solid foundation of rigorous content and hours and hours of practice.
Competitive effects need real competition. Go figure!
Yet another NEPC straw man
Would unionized charter schools be good for students?
Drop-out recovery charter schools annually serve about 20 percent of Ohio’s charter students but have never been held accountable for the performance of their students.
Closing or limiting charter options will only further limit the options available to urban parents who desperately crave better choices for their children.
Ohio educators talk about the promise and challenges of implementing the Common Core.
What Common Core supporters can learn from KIPP
Rick Hess is right: Suburbanites aren’t going to willingly erode the quality of their schools and the value of their homes. The question for the school choice movement is whether we should take such realities as a given.
Here’s hoping “next generation” also means “better”
Ember Reichgott Junge: Present at the revolution
Louisiana’s top-rated school district recently reversed its decision to participate in the state’s new school voucher program. Why? Once the superintendent announced the district’s intent to “make a difference” for children coming from low-rated schools, his community told him to back off.
Unionized charter schools may make good sense for the unions themselves, but they would be a set-back for school improvement efforts in the Buckeye State.
Drop-out recovery charter schools annually serve about 20 percent of Ohio’s 100,000 charter students but have never been held accountable for the performance of their students
The Connecticut General Assembly wisely tabled an aberrant lottery scheme for charter schools when it passed a sweeping education reform bill, but lawmakers now want to spend state resources investigating the "feasibility" of this bad idea.
Data, data everywhere
A free market for schools, not so much for authorizers
It is in the hope of stemming the loss of families and children that the mayor has proposed his bold school reform plan that seeks to turn the city’s educational fortunes around.
It is in the hope of stemming the loss of families and children that the mayor has proposed his bold school reform plan that seeks to turn the city’s educational fortunes around.
The report, Future Shock: Early Common Core Lessons from Ohio Implementers, will be released next week, but some of Belcher’s findings are worth reporting early because this is such a burning issue for schools and educators across the state.
There is a saying among high performing schools that there is no 100 percent solution to helping students learn. Instead, there are a hundred 1 percent solutions that add up to big results. The same is true in the world of education policy.
Chris Christie and Cory Booker may have been the headliners at a school choice policy summit last week, but it was a largely unknown corporate representative who provided some sobering perspective.
Fast-tracking the future in the Sunshine State