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Eva’s in charge — and the schools are good
Charter-school networks, such as Eva Moskowitz’s high-scoring Success Academies, are creating “high-functioning school systems” that...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 6, 20172 min read
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Strivers succed in Chicago charters
Chicago’s charter high schools are helping underdog kids get to college, according to a study by the University of Chicago Consortium on...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 5, 20171 min read
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All-minority charters: Is it segregation?
At 25 percent of urban charter schools, 99 percent of students are non-white, reports AP. That compares to 10 percent of traditional...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 4, 20172 min read
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Parents prefer private schools
Ninety-three percent of private-school parents and 90 percent of homeschoolers were satisfied with their children’s education, compared...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 2, 20171 min read
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Despite huge racial gap, SF rejects KIPP
Progressive San Francisco is one of the worst districts in the state when it comes to educating low-income black and Latino students,...
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 28, 20171 min read
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Charters don’t close gender gap: Girls rule
Top charter schools are closing achievement gaps for low-income and minority students, who earn college degrees at three to five times...
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 20, 20171 min read
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‘Teach Us All’ troubles activists
Teach Us All, a documentary on school integration, “troubles some activists,” writes Chalkbeat’s Christina Veiga. The movie highlights...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 20, 20171 min read
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Backpack full of mishmash
Backpack Full of Cash, an anti-charter documentary showing at film festivals, blames charter schools for taking funding from traditional...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 13, 20172 min read
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They call her ‘Evil,’ but the kids are learning
When Eva Moskowitz left the New York City Council to found a Harlem charter school, public-school teachers called her “Evil Moskowitz,”...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 6, 20172 min read
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CREDO: NYC charter students learn more
Students are learning more in New York City charter schools, concludes a new study from Stanford’s Center for Research on Educational...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 5, 20171 min read
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Blacks leave Minneapolis district schools
Parents cite “safety concerns” and “a belief that academics elsewhere are better,” they write. MPS “has struggled for years to close the...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 27, 20171 min read
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Reinventing school districts
The 74 is running excerpts from the book. “Schools work better when their leaders have the autonomy to run their schools; when they are...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 26, 20171 min read
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Millennials support school choice
Millennials strongly support school choice — including taxpayer-supported tuition vouchers and charter schools — according to surveys by...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 26, 20171 min read
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Despite success, charters ‘lose the narrative’
Charter Schools Losing the Narrative But Winning the Data writes Jonathan Chait in New York magazine. Public charter schools have shown...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 18, 20172 min read
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Educating Eva
The Education of Eva Moskowitz, a memoir by Success Academy founder, describes her evolution from charter skeptic to crusader. Moskowitz...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 18, 20172 min read
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Personalized learning works — if done well
Personalized learning shows promise, but there are implementation challenges, writes RAND’s John F. Pane on Brookings’ Chalkboard blog....
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 15, 20172 min read
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Success succeeds for black, Latino kids
Success Academy Charter Schools students — nearly all from low-income black and Latino families — “outperformed every district in New...
Joanne Jacobs
Aug 28, 20172 min read
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Public prefers private schools
Americans think private schools provide the best K-12 education, according to a new Gallup poll. Next in order are parochial, charter,...
Joanne Jacobs
Aug 25, 20171 min read
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San Diego pushes weak students to charters
San Diego Unified achieved an amazing 91 percent graduation rate in 2016. Photo: John Gataldo/San Diego Union-Tribune How did they do it?...
Joanne Jacobs
Aug 18, 20172 min read
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Charters lose support, but fewer oppose choice
Public support for charter schools has fallen among Democrats and Republicans, but opposition to school vouchers and tax-credit-funded...
Joanne Jacobs
Aug 15, 20171 min read
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