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...
View ArticleNo 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...
View ArticleMost 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...
View ArticleGrad 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....
View ArticleRequiring 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....
View ArticleMore 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...
View ArticleD.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....
View ArticleWhere 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...
View ArticleRaising 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...
View ArticleDC’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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