Louisiana should consider a common-sense approach to accountability
A few suggestions for voucher accountability
A few suggestions for voucher accountability
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.
Innovation demands investment
The Common Core is common sense
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.
The Common Core ELA standards are right to takes on one of the most prominent and often fiercely defended fallacies in American education: that fiction is the only—or perhaps even the best—way to develop students’ love of reading, learning, and critical comprehension skills.
What Harlem Village Academy and Finland have in common
Columbus Collegiate Academy (CCA) opened in 2008, and it has now launched the newly-formed United Schools Network, a nonprofit charter management organization (CMO).
Guest blogger Darrell Allison, president of Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina, argues for a range of quality education models.
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.
With the 2014-15 Common-Core transition looming, we wondered: How are Ohio’s educators preparing themselves for this big change? Who is doing this work and what can other schools and districts learn from the early adopters? What are lessons, hopes, and fears facing those on the frontlines who have to lead Ohio’s embrace of significantly more rigorous academic standards?
Here’s hoping “next generation” also means “better”