A big win for the Big Apple’s charters
Governor Andrew Cuomo and embattled Mayor Bill de Blasio have reached a tentative deal.
Governor Andrew Cuomo and embattled Mayor Bill de Blasio have reached a tentative deal.
As announced last fall, Michael J. Petrilli will be succeeding Chester E. Finn, Jr. as president of the Fordham Institute come August. Here’s an update on the transition.
An ODE data guru gets a big honor and a Toledo charter school gets a big run around.
To sort or not to sort? That question vexes many schools. And still will, despite this new research brief, which summarizes pros and cons of tracking students by skill level but fails to resolve anything. The authors looked at a number of studies of the effects of two Chicago Public Schools policies—one that reduced skill-based sorting and one that increased it.
This eighth edition of Achieve’s annual report monitoring states’ adoption of core academic expectations arrives at a critical moment—and underscores the mammoth challenges associated with standards implementation.
The Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education was born in response to A Nation at Risk, and in a 1991 report, it pointed the way toward the Bay State's much-praised 1993 education-reform act.
Life Skills Centers, a group of fifteen dropout-recovery charter schools operated by White Hat Management, is on the decline. Last year’s enrollment (school year 2012-13) was less than half that of 2006.
Hot off the presses: sometimes even a signed and sealed deal can't secure a facility for charter school.
Guest commentary on the need for diligence on the part of authorizers at the front end of charter school creation.
I had the good fortune of attending the Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) conference last week. AEFP attracts some of the nation’s finest researchers along with a small smattering of policymakers and advocates.
Since 2000, the Brown Center has released an annual report taking on three important issues in education policy.
The Common Core drama continues in Florida: after much coquetry, the Sunshine State has officially opted to abandon PARCC in
A Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT) plan in Kalamazoo has shown some early results; we look at the possible implications for urban education in Ohio.
A slight improvement for Ohio in the annual digital learning report card
Breakthrough Schools in Cleveland and vocational education across Ohio are in the news.
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“Grit” is a hot new buzzword—and what some believe to be the key to whether a student succeeds. But this study takes a slightly different tack, demonstrating a link between a teacher’s grit and her effectiveness and longevity in the classroom.
Research has repeatedly found that being a firstborn can come with advantages—they tend to be natural leaders, have higher IQ’s, and are often chosen to
Perhaps New York mayor Bill de Blasio is starting to see that attacking charter schools is a better Democratic-primary strategy than governing philosophy.
Do the characteristics of a school and its neighborhood affect whether prospective teachers apply to teach there?