In an op-ed in the New York Times, Professor of Public Policy David Kirp provides a strong example that demonstrates that public schools aren’t failing students, as groups like ALEC claim. Kirp demonstrates how Union City, N.J. — bringing poor, mostly immigrant kids into the educational mainstream — argues for reinventing the public schools we have. […]
From Valerie Strauss, Washington Post: Charter schools that start out doing poorly aren’t likely to improve, and charters that are successful from the beginning most often stay that way, according to a new study by researchers at Stanford University. The report, done by Stanford’s Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) and funded by the Robertson Foundation, […]
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 […]
