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Boys to educated men

Boys Latin Of Philadelphia Charter School will be featured on NBC’s Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly. The motto of the school, which primarily enrolls boys from low-income black families, is Faber est...

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No show, no skills — but they got into college

Ballou High graduates celebrate in June. Every senior was admitted to college at Washington D.C.’s low-performing Ballou High in June. Most had applied to the open-admission community college that’s...

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Most improved cities: Chicago? Or New Orleans, D.C.

New Orleans and Washington, D.C. — not Chicago — are the fastest-improving urban districts, argue Emily Langhorne and David Osborne of the Progressive Policy Institute on The 74. Chicago’s third to...

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Grad rates rise — achievement doesn’t

Graduation rates are rising in Minnesota, reports the MinnPost. But many high school graduates aren’t prepared for jobs or college, especially in Minneapolis and St. Paul, reports Erin Hinrichs....

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Requiring the impossible leads to fraud

Abdullah Zaki, named District of Columbia Public Schools’ “principal of the year” in 2013, has been placed on leave for changing attendance records and not reporting suspensions. Washington, D.C....

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More brains for the bucks at urban charters

Charter schools provide higher achievement for less money in eight cities, concludes a University of Arkansas study. “Public charter schools across eight major U.S. cities are 35 percent more...

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D.C. schools really are better

Antwan Wilson resigned as chancellor of District of Columbia Public Schools after admitted he bypassed the lottery system to enroll his daughter in the district’s most sought-after high school....

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Where do you really live?

Duke Ellington School of the Arts orchestra students Kicked Out shows how districts in the Philadelphia suburbs keep out non-district students. In one segment of the series, WHYY reporter Avi...

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Raising grad rates, lowering standards 

Graduation rates are up in Los Angeles Unified. But standards are down, writes Conor Williams. The LA Unified board lowered graduation requirements, allowing 53 percent of the class of ’16 to graduate...

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DC’s teacher reforms pay off

District of Columbia Public Schools, “once among the nation’s worst,”  are now considered a good place to teach, writes Thomas Toch in Washington Monthly. Traditional schools are competing with...

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