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March 7, 2017
Are charter schools overrated? This was the topic at hand for Wednesday night’s Intelligence Squared debate. Jeanne Allen and Gerard Robinson advocated for charter schools as they took on Gary Miron and Julian Vasquez Heilig. The discussion was impassioned, intelligent, and civil (mostly). If you didn’t get the chance to tune in, here are the […]
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January 24, 2017
Opinion Floyd County Times January 24, 2017 Kentucky felt an earthquake on November 8, 2016 that drastically changed the makeup of Frankfort and provided the Bluegrass state with a viable path to finally adopt needed reforms. With an eager Governor and a General Assembly intent on improving Kentucky’s business climate and education system, Kentuckians from […]
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January 23, 2017
Colleges are failing, but what can replace them? Online courses, net-campuses and mentors. by David Gelernter The Wall Street Journal January 23, 2017 U.S. colleges are failing—the fancy-pants institutions along with the rest. They nearly all have fundamental problems, and they have had them so long that these institutions seem destined to collapse as students […]
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January 19, 2017
Fox & Friends — Leading Teachers Unions Discredit DeVos Setting the record straight on union efforts to discredit Betsy Devos and parent power. Watch here. Wall Street Journal — Who Is Betsy DeVos? Dispelling myths about Donald Trump’s pick for Education Secretary. Watch here. ABC — How Trump’s Pick for Education Secretary May Reignite the Education Wars […]
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January 15, 2017
This article shines a light on the depth — and longevity of support — for charter schools in the African-American community. The story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s closest aide and chief of staff, Dr. Wyatt T. Walker, is not only enlightening, but something few know. It is in that spirit that we are […]
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January 10, 2017
by Joe Nathan Chalkbeat January 5, 2017 Do some school choice programs make sense in rural America? For students like Paige Knutson, Daniel Lopez Gomez, and Merle Vander Weyst, the answer is certainly yes. President-elect Donald Trump and his choice for secretary of education insist that private-school vouchers are a good idea. I strongly disagree. […]
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January 9, 2017
by Jeanne Allen Washington Examiner December 5, 2016 With Betsy DeVos likely the next Secretary of Education, the sharks of the status quo are circling. There is all sorts of misinformation about her home state of Michigan’s vibrant charter school movement and whether such schools in Detroit have succeeded or failed in a city that […]
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January 6, 2017
Wise People Knowing! (11th) Great Funders Funding 10th) Best of Teachers Teaching (9th) Nine Data Dancing (8th) Charter Schools Leading (7th) Opportunity Scholars Expanding (6th) Parent Power Growing (5th) State Policy Changing (4th) Reformie Ladies Lunching (3rd) A Global Hub for Technology (2nd) Model Legislation And a Nominee for Opportunity! The final in our 12-ish days of Christmas […]
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