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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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Youngest, poorest students are missing in D.C.
Washington D.C.’s missing students are disproportionately the poorest and the youngest, writes Beth Hawkins on The 74. Photo: AppleTree Learning Center While some students did well learning at home,...
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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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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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D.C. will try ‘earn and learn’ for high schoolers
D.C.’s summer jobs program traditionally provides staff for summer camps. Last summer, camps were virtual. Photo: Marje Hines Washington, D.C. teens will be paid to take classes and work this summer,...
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As schools reopen, where are the kids?
As Chicago reopens more classrooms, principals are searching for missing students, writes Cassie Walker Burke in Chalkbeat. Some families chose in-person learning, but their children didn’t show up on...
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Standing in the schoolhouse door
Is it parents vs. teachers’ unions now? In a November Education Next poll, which asked whether unions have a positive or negative effect on schools, parents showed no less support than in the past,...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Charters get $5,721 less per student
Charter schools in 14 cities received an average of $5,721 less per student in federal, state, local and private funding than district-run schools in 2013-14, concludes a University of Arkansas study....
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If charters work, do vouchers fail?
Washington, D.C. students who win the voucher lottery earn lower math scores than lottery losers, especially in elementary school, concludes a U.S. Department of Education study. There was no...
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Rhee’s DC reforms are paying off
The very controversial, take-no-prisoners education reformer Michelle Rhee deserves credit for making big changes in Washington, D.C. and setting a national example, writes Bellwether’s Sara Mead in...
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