Fordham Foundation sponsoring three new schools this year
Three new Fordham schools open their doors this month
Three new Fordham schools open their doors this month
Anthony Kim of Education Elements comes to Ohio
Louisiana's call for a practical accountability system for the state’s voucher program
The program, slated to expire at the end of this year, needs more time--and attention--to reach its full potential.
Michigan's Highland Park School District offers a worthwhile experiment in edu-governance
Instead of a helpful resource, their new book simply defends existing--and poorly aligned--curricular material.
A perfect storm of low enrollment, poor fiscal management, and some of the worst academic results in the state prompted Highland Parks Public Schools to take bold action.
Here's hoping that private schools in Louisiana won't be bullied out of their desire to serve disadvantaged students
The golden opportunity provided by the “K-8 Publishers Criteria for the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics.”
Who better to speak to contemporary American youth than one of the nation’s most prolific inventors and entrepreneurs?
The Louisiana teachers union can’t get the courts to stop private schools from enrolling voucher-bearing students this fall, so they’ve taken to threatening the schools with litigation.
Putting the sliding scale into practice
If it happens, thank E.D. Hirsch
Will the few critical but passing phrases that link the Common Core ELA standards to a content-rich curriculum be enough to drive instructional changes our students so desperately need?
Ohio charters are gaining an international reputation—but not for the best of reasons.
Have Cleveland’s charters “done badly?” Depends on your standard.
The charter sector has come a long way and its successes are worth celebrating, yet as this report demonstrates multiple challenges still remain
Louisiana has shown us that it’s possible to offer private-school choice and control for quality in a way that doesn’t cramp what makes a private school unique.
The power of the humanities
Who should govern control education?
It’s time for some trust-busting
It matters to whom charters are compared
States like Louisiana could learn a lesson from Indiana's approach to reporting performance.
Charter schools may be celebrating twenty years of existence, but the milestone gets most of them no closer to the surplus classroom space and facility financing controlled by local school boards.
One more valuable option for students and parents
Text complexity is the new black
The folks at the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice have put out a call for research proposals that explore the effects that choice and competition have on K-12 education.
Ohio charters have earned a global reputation.
Despite persistent hostility to charter school expansion in most states, there remains one aspect of charter schooling that fails to get the attention it deserves: athletics.