October 14, 2015
Andrew Martin, former teacher and current director of special projects at KIPPNJ, drills down on student achievement data in Newark. He’s honest about former superintendent […]
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October 13, 2015
Imani Thornton, a graduate of Chicago’s Southland College Prep charter school and a student at Princeton University, has a few words of advice this morning […]
October 12, 2015
Over the last couple of weeks, elders associated with anti-choice lobbying groups have mounted attacks on the expansion of hybrid charter/traditional schools, also known as […]
October 8, 2015
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 […]
October 1, 2015
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 […]
September 17, 2015
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 […]
September 15, 2015
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 […]
September 11, 2015
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 […]
September 8, 2015
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 […]
September 2, 2015
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 […]
August 26, 2015
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 […]
August 25, 2015
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 […]