Month: September 2023

Charters Must Avoid Recreating the Failed School District Financial Model – by Paul Hill

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Charter schools start out with big advantages, but there’s no guarantee they’ll keep them. It depends on whether they avoid the same financial traps that school districts have fallen into. New charter schools control hiring and spending and can adapt to changes in students’ needs and improvements in instructional methods. In comparison, districts are frozen in place by commitm...

To Bring Back Bilingual Ed, California Needs Teachers – by Joanne Jacobs

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In Rowland Heights, Calif., Ethan Heng, 5, adds his name to a board that reads in Mandarin, “We can recognize our English names.” Bilingual education is on its way back in California. After decisively rejecting bilingual education in 1998, state voters enthusiastically endorsed its return in 2016. Educators are eager to offer more bilingual classes—and not only to r...

In Delhi Experiment, Software Sparks Success – by Karthik Muralidharan

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For nearly two decades, we have been hearing about the potential of technology to disrupt education. Yet, after two decades and countless laptops, smartboards, and other educational gadgets distributed across schools in developed and developing countries, ed-tech does not seem to have delivered on its promise. In the developing world, several studies have found that providing ...

An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan – by Chester E. Finn, Jr.

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Dear Mark and Priscilla, Please allow an aging education reformer to offer some unsolicited advice regarding the work of the new Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Almost 20 years ago, I wrote a long public letter to Bill Gates that drew lessons from earlier philanthropic efforts in K-12 education—including many billions of dollars wasted by the likes of Ford, Rockefeller, and Annenbe...