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October 26, 2015
Critics of charter schools often claim that the reason for some of these independent schools’ superior student growth results from “skimming,” or admitting higher-achieving kids […]
October 25, 2015
Tom Moran at the Star-Ledger nails the pro-public charter zeitgeist in Newark: The failure of urban schools, we are often told, can be traced to […]
October 23, 2015
Like the boy in the Hans Christian Anderson’s tale called “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” we’re all agape as results on new benchmarked assessments roll in […]
October 23, 2015
Peter Cunningham in the Huffington Post: Charter opponents like to label education leaders who are empowering families’ right to choose as “privatizers.” In their dictionary, […]
October 23, 2015
From Paul Rudnick’s “diagnostic exam” in the New Yorker: 1. When your first grader asks for help solving a Common Core math problem involving subitizing […]
October 22, 2015
Let me state this for the record: I love PBS. But Gwen Ifill’s interview with Jesse Hagopian, an anti-testing activist in Seattle who, according to […]