Published Articles & Media
Are We Personalizing Learning for the Students Who Need It Most?
Personalizing learning to reach all students takes alert teachers, strong school leadership, and creative thinking.
Charters Must Avoid Recreating the Failed School District Financial Model
It’s troubling to see that many charter schools and CMOs are steadily accumulating fixed costs.
Is Charter School Growth Flat-Lining?
The rate of charter school growth was at 6 to 8 percent until the 2014-2015 school year. It is now down to 1.8 percent.
Necessity, Not Nicety: What We’ve Learned About District-Charter Alliances
In some of the cities known as ground zero for noisy fights about charter schools, quiet partnerships are underway between district and charter leaders.
Six Unifying Education Policy Ideas for 2017
We won’t make progress on education if we keep pushing our same old ideas. Let’s make 2017 the year for inventiveness, evidence, and humility.
Will the New Administration Love School Choice to Death?
Given the largely successful push by teachers unions and other opponents of public school choice to brand charter schools as a conservative, partisan issue, the last thing public charter schools need is to have the next president feed the “end of public education” narrative.
Can Civil Rights Institutions Keep Up as Public Education Evolves?
Black families appreciate what advocacy groups have done to end discriminatory segregation, but they also want to be able to choose the school that works best for their child.
Taking a Lesson from The Boys in the Boat and Aiming for ‘Swing’
The extreme focus, teamwork, effort, and joy that drive elite winning teams are exactly what’s required to turn around our lowest-performing schools.
How DC and New Orleans Are Addressing Excessive Discipline While Respecting School Autonomy
No one doubts that suspension and expulsion rates in too many public schools are far too high. But simply telling schools to “do less” suspensions and expulsions, has not worked.
Following the Money in Personalized Learning
Can personalized learning schools sustain expensive staffing models and technology costs after private funding runs out?
