From The Atlantic: A eye-opening new paper comparing U.S. students to their international peers by social class finds that the richest Americans are world-class readers, and in math, our disadvantaged kids have improved more than almost any other country. Here’s what everybody knows about education in the United States. It’s broken. It’s failing our poorest […]
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NC Charter School’s International Basketball Team Raises Oversight Questio...
A shocking exposé by NC Policy Watch’s Sarah Ovaska shows just how egregious the lack of oversight can be when it comes to charter schools. The Quality Education Academy received $13.2 million in federal, state, and local taxpayer dollars over a four-year period to help subsidize the education of the charter’s basketball team–two-thirds of whom […]
Online charter schools to get less money, show resul...
According to Sarah Ovaska of NC Policy Watch, Virtual charter schools will face restrictions if they want to open up in North Carolina. The N.C. State Board of Education voted today to adopt a policy that would require the online-based schools to adhere to a significantly lower funding formula ($3504 per student) than brick-and-mortar charter […]
Education is Not Like Toothpas...
As the policy debates over education “reform” continue, some of the key underlying issues – competing worldviews – are starting to emerge clearly. The first public introduction, last July, of Governor Snyder’s[Michigan’s governor] advisory panel on the school funding law provided one perspective (see upcoming article). They view their charge as making sure money follows […]