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On virtual education, some districts are learning to adapt

Four school districts on Florida’s east coast are joining with Indian River State College and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the world's...

From charters to vouchers -- the next evolution for liberal Democrats

About two million American children now attend more than 5,000 charter schools nationwide. Although it is likely to take some time...

Stephen D. Sugarman

For community organizers, parental empowerment is not about party politics.

Edit Barry is a mother, activist, writer and education blogger from Baltimore who criticized my recent blog post connecting feminism with school...

It's time to move beyond old assumptions about vouchers

School voucher critics generally approach their job reviewing the research on school choice with unfair assumptions, and otherwise insightful commentators...

Transparency in education -- how the U.S. leads

I wrote recently about the Europe-wide study coordinated by OIDEL, called IPPE: Indicators for Parental Participation in Compulsory Education. While...

Measuring responsiveness to parents

One of the recent projects of OIDEL, the Geneva-based NGO mentioned in my last post, has been to coordinate researchers...

Accountability 2.0 requires balance between regulations and choice

Similar to food, medicine, and housing, accountability in public education is a balance of government regulations and customer choice, and...

Widening our school reform horizons

In the early decades of the 19th century, American education reformers followed eagerly the developments in European countries that were...

When charter schools reflect a spiritual culture

There are 31 charter schools in Hawaii today, a majority of which are focused on regenerating the indigenous Hawaiian culture....

A modest, yet radical proposal

Now that MacArthur "genius" Roland G. Fryer's new paper on school inputs and effectiveness is beginning to get attention, it seems...

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