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Innovation in the Heartland
How Indianapolis’s charter high schools are turning the tide on learning loss
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Oklahoma’s Approval of America’s First-Ever Religious Charter School Is Cause for Celebration
Religious pluralism, Free Exercise Clause of First Amendment outweigh concerns of critics
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“High Schools Are Launching Pads, Not Destinations”
GEO network, with schools in Indiana and Louisiana, aims for "K-14 and K-16 results with K-12 dollars"
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Great Hearts Network Delivers “Classical” Education to More than 25,000 Students
Charters in Texas, Arizona; will add sites in Florida, Louisiana
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How Baton Rouge School Parents Are Like Amazon Customers
"Schools are finding that they have to be responsive to the increasingly high expectations"
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Does Charter “Accountability” Erode Charter Leader Diversity?
Default closure laws have a cost.
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“If you don’t provide results for kids…then you don’t get your school renewed.”
A "venture bureaucrat" tells how she tripled the number of charter schools in New York—while also holding failing schools accountable.
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How to Make College More Affordable? Try the Charter School Model
“If the accreditation barriers to the formation of new colleges can be lowered, human and philanthropic capital will mobilize.”
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Can We Revive Standards-Based Reform?
Statewide curriculum sounds seductive, but charters, vouchers are more promising.
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Backfilling Charter School Seats Didn’t Hurt Test Scores, New Boston Study Finds
“Strong evidence that high-performing charter schools can continue to benefit their current students even as they incorporate new students into vacant seats”
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The leap into a new era of machine intelligence carries risks and challenges, but also plenty of promise
The Stubborn Myth of “Learning Styles”
State teacher-license prep materials peddle a debunked theory
California’s New Math Framework Doesn’t Add Up
It would place Golden State 6th graders years behind the rest of the world—and could eventually skew education in the rest of the U.S., too
Don’t Ruin College by Making It Free
Threats to quality and innovation outweigh benefit of increased access.
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