Best response to Jack B's latest rant* in which he juxtaposes two stories --the first about Portland Public Schools revenue deficit; the second about its decision to lease space for a new school in the Pearl: "What does $300K per year beginning in 2011 in an area without an elementary schoo...

Apparently one of the two women proposing a new French immersion program, either as a focus option attached to an existing neighborhood school, or perhaps as another charter school, is a Francophile --a lover of all things French.  Well, so am I, at least to a degree.  I love most things...

I'll give Bill Gates credit for directing a huge amount of money, through his foundation, at education reform. And I very much appreciate his effort to try to determine what works instead of resorting to fads or politics. But when he writes,The private high school I attended, Lakeside in Seattle, ma...

EDUCATION AND INDOCTRINATION CANNOT CO-EXIST Gabriel Garnica, Esq. As liberals everywhere light cigarettes in the afterglow of their inauguration paradise, sane Americans with queasy stomachs can focus their attention on the many areas where the left’s fingerprints look more like infantile gra...

Not a tree, a Hebrew charter school. Not the first in the US, that's Ben Gamla in Florida. Not a certainty, more politics per square foot in Brooklyn than anywhere in the world. From the article: Charter schools are publicly funded but independently operated... Organizers are taking pains to assure ...

Obama's Secretary of Education designate built his reputation in Chicago on the success of his so-called "turnaround schools." Turnaround schools are "low performing" schools (kids with lousy test scores) which are shut down and then replaced with "different" school...

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Everything DC Chancellor of Schools Michelle Rhee knows about improving school performance she learned from her three year stint as a Teach for America recruit.  Her formula for raising "student achievement" is a simple one: Put a dedicated, hard-working teacher in every classroom an...

Tough love and hard work is the prescription at San Jose's Downtown College Prep — and it's getting results....

Starting a charter school is a lot of work and can become a political hot potato. I worked as a consultant on the very beginnings of the cyber academy in the Minneapolis system way back in 1996. True, Minnesota was the birthplace of charter schools. Still, I'm surprised it has taken so long to get t...