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Lessons from Boston: “no excuses” charter schools kept boosting student test scores after expansion

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Scaling Up Boston’s Charter School Sector,” Sarah Cohodes, Elizabeth Setren, and Christopher R. Research sometimes shows that charter schools are better at raising student achievement than traditional public schools. But many charter schools get about the same results and sometimes charter schools do worse.

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OPINION: What if everything we believe about education is a lie?

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Related: What if public schools never reopen? This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. These myths are harmful, in deBoer’s view, because they lead us to conflate academic ability and human worth. It is pernicious, it is cruel, and it must change,” he writes. Fordham Institute.

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LA’s school counselors strike back

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But the neighborhood just to the north, Hancock Park, is 71 percent white, with a median income of $85,000; the student body, meanwhile, is 79 percent Latino, 12 percent African-American, 7 percent Asian, and 64 percent “economically disadvantaged,” drawn from Koreatown, Mid-City, and neighborhoods farther afield.

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PROOF POINTS: Many schools are buying on-demand tutoring but a study finds that few students are using it

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In the fall of 2020, educators at Aspire Public Schools – a network of 36 charter schools in California that are privately run but taxpayer funded – were worried. As with other schools around the country, pandemic era learning wasn’t going smoothly. The tutoring was free to students no matter how much they used it.

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The ‘dirty secret’ about educational innovation

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Big chunks went to building new KIPP charter schools and training thousands of new Teach for America recruits to become teachers. “We’ve known for the longest time that economic background characteristics swamp any education intervention,” she said. Since then, more than $1.5

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What’s wrong with white teachers?

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Black primary-school students who are matched to a same-race teacher performed better on standardized tests and face more favorable teacher perceptions according to recent findings from the German economic research group Institute of Labor Economics. This transcends school type.

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These schools are opening their arms to special education students. Can they afford it?

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NEW ORLEANS — A bubble machine and a table lined with cookies and coloring books welcomed families coming for a midsummer meet-and-greet at Noble Minds Institute for Whole Child Learning, a new charter school in the Carrollton neighborhood. It’s overseen by the state school board.). But the system has changed since Katrina.