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Federal watchdog slams charter school data

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report in July, complaining that charter school data is so incomplete that it could not determine whether charter schools are avoiding non-English...

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Q&A with KIPP’s Dave Levin about Technology in Education

Dave Levin, co-founder of the KIPP (Knowledge is Power Program) network of charter schools, has a lot to be proud of. His schools, which focus on inner-city minority students, are now operating in 20...

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Arizona, Wisconsin and Colorado have the highest concentrations of charter...

I was just looking at some updated “State Education Reform” statistics from the National Center of Education Statistics and was trying to make sense of the numbers of charter schools in each state....

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Internet instruction favored more by wealthy than poor Americans

A fascinating opinion poll released January 29, 2014 by Harris Interactive and Everest College says that high-income Americans are more open to learning over the Internet than low-income Americans....

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Top 10 teachers in Florida illustrate how messy and absurd the new teacher...

This week of February 24, 2014 the State of Florida was forced to dump a boat load of data on its teachers into the public domain (It lost a law suit to Times Union newspaper in Florida, which...

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The teaching profession is becoming less gray and less green, but more...

Much ink has been devoted to the teaching profession’s increasingly gray and green complexion — the profusion of teachers at the two extremes of the age spectrum. There are lots of veteran teachers...

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What U.S. schools can learn from Poland

Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. (kids.eb.com) By any measure, Poland has made remarkable education progress since the fall of the Berlin Wall. On the most recent 2012 international tests of...

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More than 6,000 charter schools now operate in the United States

The number of charter schools surpassed 6,000 at the start of the 2012-13 school year, as these schools — publicly financed, but privately run — steadily increased by 7 percent throughout the United...

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