A recently released annual update from the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools included a surprising fact: a mere 329 charter schools opened across the country in the 2016-2017 school year. In no year since the Alliance began tracking new charter openings has the total number of new schools been so low. Looking back at CRPE’s Hopes, Fears, and Reality series, it appear...

This is the third in a series of three blog posts about how state and local education policy would be affected by the repeal of ESSA regulations that were written during the Obama administration. On Monday, Brandon L. Wright laid out the big picture by describing what Congress is expected to do and what should happen next. On Tuesday, Anne Hyslop looked at some of the unintende...

On Wednesday, March 1 at 6:45 pm, Intelligence Squared will host a debate on the resolution “charter schools are overrated.” Speaking in favor of the motion are Gary Miron and Julian Vasquez Heilig. Speaking against the motion are Jeanne Allen and Gerard Robinson. Watch the live stream here. — Education Next Source: EducationNext...

Charles Best leads DonorsChoose.org, a nonprofit website on which teachers can post their specific classroom needs and receive crowdfunding. Starting in 1998, Charles spent five years teaching history in a high school in the Bronx. Noticing that limited classroom resources were available to his students was what moved him to launch DonorsChoose.org. To date, teachers at more th...

The Winter 2019 issue of Education Next is now available in full on our website. The issue presents results from the 2018 EdNext Poll of public opinion. Among this year’s findings are rising support for increased teacher salaries and growing favor for universal school vouchers and charter schools. The twelfth annual poll also reveals how union and nonunion teachers differ on ke...

This is the second in a series of three blog posts about how state and local education policy would be affected by the repeal of ESSA regulations that were written during the Obama administration. Monday, Brandon L. Wright laid out the big picture by describing what Congress is expected to do and what should happen next. Today, Anne Hyslop looks at some of the unintended conseq...

I’m in the middle of a series of posts looking at how we might usher in a “Golden Age of Educational Practice” now that big new policy initiatives appear to be on ice. Last week I claimed that all of the possibilities that might work at scale entail various investments in innovation and R&D. Such efforts will only be successful, though, with exponentially better insight in...

In EducationDive, Tara Garcia Mathewson describes efforts at a middle school in New York City to implement a new approach to student discipline. The principal reports that there are far fewer suspensions under the new approach, which involves closely tracking student behavior, rewarding good behavior, and encouraging reflection. But an article in the Winter 2017 issue of Educat...

Since Neil M. Gorsuch was nominated for a U.S. Supreme Court seat left vacant by the death of conservative jurist Antonin Scalia a year ago, the search for tea leaves has been relentless. Reviews of his long career, including his current appointment on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, have settled on descriptors like gracious and eloquent. Those in the educatio...