As a life-long Democrat, I’m so disappointed in my current presidential candidates, each of whom declined an invitation from Campbell…
Skeptics of KIPP argue that these schools rely on selective admission, attrition, and replacement of students to produce positive achievement…
Both NJ Spotlight and the A.P. report today on the ribbon-cutting at Camden’s KIPP Cooper Norcross Academy, the first public…
A Bronx parent of three kids with special needs rebuts NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina and Mayor Bill de Blasio’s…
Bellwether has just issued a “briefing book” called “The State of the Charter School Movement” which “reviews the current state…
Tom Moran of the Star-Ledger runs the numbers:Let's start with the kids. At last count, 26 percent of Newark students…
So, how’s it going at Camden Public Schools, where three new renaissance schools – hybrid district/charter schools run by non-profit…
Speaking of school choice, some parents in New Jersey can bypass their neighborhood school by enrolling their children in one…
Jonathan Chait in New York Magazine considers the impact of school reform in New Orleans post-Hurricane Katrina, “a disaster that…
There’s a new kind of fairy tale in the annals of those who denigrate efforts at education reform. It goes…