Help needy parents choose best schools
School choice can be challenging for less-educated, non-English-speaking, lower-income parents, writes Emily Langhorne, associate director of the Reinventing America’s Schools Project. She’s been...
View ArticleIntegrating by choice in San Antonio
? San Antonio is using school choice to integrate its schools — and to raise test scores, report Beth Hawkins on The 74. San Antonio’s booming economy hasn’t reached the 78207 zip code on the West...
View ArticleModeling high school on preschool
Sophomore boys weaving baskets at City Neighbors School said they’d prefer more tests. Photo: Sarah Garland High school should be more like preschool, writes Sarah Garland in the Hechinger Report....
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Education Post hopes to create “a new conversation” about improving education, writes Peter Cunningham, who worked for Arne Duncan in the Education Department and Chicago Public Schools. With the...
View ArticleWill 1st graders be lost in the ziggurat?
New York’s first-grade curriculum module on Early World Civilizations is troubling Chris Cerrone of Schools Matter @the Chalk Face. The vocabulary includes priests, religion, ziggurat, caravan,...
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