By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Our Future. January 6, 2012 I remember the day that the poor kids showed up at our school. It was in 1964. Classes had already started, and I was in second grade, surrounded by my familiar friends from my mostly [...]
Photograph By Tony Avelar/Bloomberg; A fifth grade student works on a social studies assignment at Bullis Charter School in Los Altos, California. Old news is not necessarily good or outdated news; nor is improvement inevitability. Indeed, in time, much deteriorates. Please consider the circumstance in Silicon Valley, [...]
Photograph: Students at a magnet school in Chicago wait for the start of classes last year. | Scott Olson/Getty Images Originally Published at Pacific Standard: The Science of Society. November 28, 2010 5:00 AM Miller-McCune interviews two education experts about the promise and betrayal of diversity in [...]
Photograph; Tina Fineberg for The New York Times | Donald Fednyak in Astoria, Queens, holds a palm card given him by George Banning, canvassing for charter school advocates.| Copyright New York Times Over the last many years, Charter School growth soared exponentially. Parents preached. 'America's public schools [...]
