As a life-long Democrat, I’m so disappointed in my current presidential candidates, each of whom declined an invitation from Campbell Brown to attend an education
Skeptics of KIPP argue that these schools rely on selective admission, attrition, and replacement of students to produce positive achievement results. However, data on student
Both NJ Spotlight and the A.P. report today on the ribbon-cutting at Camden’s KIPP Cooper Norcross Academy, the first public charter school building constructed under
A Bronx parent of three kids with special needs rebuts NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina and Mayor Bill de Blasio’s claims that charter schools are
Bellwether has just issued a “briefing book” called “The State of the Charter School Movement” which “reviews the current state of play of the charter
Tom Moran of the Star-Ledger runs the numbers: Let’s start with the kids. At last count, 26 percent of Newark students attended charter schools, a
So, how’s it going at Camden Public Schools, where three new renaissance schools – hybrid district/charter schools run by non-profit operators KIPP, Mastery, and Uncommon
Speaking of school choice, some parents in New Jersey can bypass their neighborhood school by enrolling their children in one of the state’s public magnet
Jonathan Chait in New York Magazine considers the impact of school reform in New Orleans post-Hurricane Katrina, “a disaster that paradoxically gave the city the
There’s a new kind of fairy tale in the annals of those who denigrate efforts at education reform. It goes something like this: 1) Beleaguered