Joanne Jacobs
Charters get more poor kids ‘through’ college
Top charter networks have increased the college-completion rate dramatically for their low-income black and Latino graduates, concludes...
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Joanne Jacobs
Aug 10, 20171 min read
Schools improve with charter neighbors
New York City charter schools help neighboring district schools improve, according to a new study that’s set to be published in Education...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 13, 20172 min read
RAND links personalized learning to gains
At a South Carolina school that’s experimenting with personalized learning, sixth graders plan a recipe during math class. Photo: James...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 18, 20171 min read
CREDO: Nonprofit charter networks excel
Charter schools are most effective for black and Latino students, concludes the new charter-school report by the Center for Research on...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 1, 20172 min read
How BASIS does it
BASIS charters “captured four of the top five spots on U.S. News‘ annual ranking of America’s best high schools,” writes Kate Stringer on...
Joanne Jacobs
May 11, 20171 min read
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...
Joanne Jacobs
May 5, 20171 min read
Indianapolis innovates
Indianapolis is expanding school choice, writes David Osborne in Education Next. In addition to having a mayor who can authorize charter...
Joanne Jacobs
May 4, 20172 min read
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,...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 27, 20172 min read
Good education works for special-needs kids
“High-quality generation education can lead to remarkable progress for special education students,” conclude Elizabeth Setren and Nora...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 25, 20171 min read
Charters, magnets top best high school list
Charters and magnet schools dominate the top of the 2017 U.S. News Best High Schools rankings. BASIS Scottsdale, a charter school in...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 24, 20171 min read
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....
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 21, 20171 min read
Educating the poor: What works best?
Students at KIPP South Fulton Academy in Atlanta. “No excuses” charters are more effective ways to improve prospects for disadvantaged...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 20, 20172 min read
Sowell’s rise: Eddie told him to switch schools
Thomas Sowell Thomas Sowell was born poor and black in North Carolina in 1930. In a Wall Street Journal interview with Tunku Varadarajan,...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 16, 20172 min read
Charters get grads to college, but few graduate
Urban charter schools are getting their low-income, minority students to college, but few go on to earn college degrees, reports Greg...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 26, 20172 min read
How high schools hide dropouts
High schools are inflating graduation rates and test scores by steering low achievers to alternative schools, reports ProPublica and USA...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 15, 20171 min read
More money or more charter schools?
“Letting great educators open up schools is much more cost effective than increasing spending by billions of dollars,” argues Neerav...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 9, 20171 min read
DeVos victory could be defeat for charters
DeVos is “no threat to traditional schools, especially those beloved suburban schools that parents seek out,” writes Richard Whitmire in...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 24, 20172 min read
DeVos, Darth and DeVil
News coverage about Betsy DeVos has been lousy, writes Alexander Russo in The Grade, now on the Kappan site. Instead of giving readers a...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 29, 20161 min read
WA charters face new challenge in 2017
2017 will be a critical year for Washington state charter schools, which face the second year of a constitutional battle over school...
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