Jay Mathews Corrects an Error on the Blog
Jay Mathews writes about education for the Washington Post. Although he and I don’t always agree (he is a huge admirer of KIPP and wrote...
Category : High School Graduation
Virtual Charter Industry Expecting Big Growth and Profits Due to Pandemic
The virtual charter industry is anticipating growth in enrollments and profits, thanks to the pandemic. The largest of the virtual charters is the K12 Inc....
Tom Ultican Explains To Jay Matthews Why AP Courses Are a Bad Idea
Tom Ultican spent many years in Silicon Valley. Then he switched careers and became a teacher of advanced mathematics and physics. He frequently taught AP...
Gary Rubinstein: What Percent of Success Academy’s Students Graduated?
Gary Rubinstein saw an article in Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post claiming that 100% of the 98 students in the graduating class of Success Academy’s...
William Mathis: An Absurd Argument for Expanding Vouchers in Wisconsin
This review from the National Education Policy Center by William Mathis demolishes an absurd claim about the hypothetical economic benefits of expanding Wisconsin’s voucher program....
Leonie Haimson: Achieve Misleads the New York Regents about Exit Exams
Leonie Haimson writes that the New York State Board of Regents (the state board of education) hired Achieve to review the evidence about the value...
Gary Rubinstein: Eva Moskowitz’s Success Academy Grows But Continues to Have High Attrition Rates
Gary Rubinstein read a story in the local Rupert Murdoch newspaper saluting Eva Moskowitz’s charter chain for its high SAT scores, but then noticed how...
What Happened to the Students Who Began KIPP-Philly in 2003?
Marc Mannella opened the first KIPP middle school in Philadelphia in 2003. He started with 90 students in fifth grade. KIPP promised that students who...
Mercedes Schneider On NOLA Charter Chaos
In this post, Mercedes Schneider tries to untangle the mess created by lack of oversight in all-charter New Orleans. She begins: In all-charter New...
Mercedes Schneider: All Student Records in NOLA Will Be Audited After Scandal
Mercedes Schneider reports a welcome development in New Orleans: in the wake of a grade-fixing scandal, all student records will be audited. As she...