Long-term trend NAEP brings more bad news
The National Assessment of Educational Progress released Long Term Trend data for 13-year-old students last week. On these exams, 10...
Read More >Florida’s academic gains for students with disabilities deserves emulation
If you take the Nation’s Report Card data back as far as it will go to capture all 50 states...
Read More >Hey! Ho! Let’s go!
In October 2001, your humble author was in Austin, Texas, at a Hank Williams III concert, and had to make...
Read More >Calculator > brown paper breathing bag
Last week saw some excitement in Arizona political circles as the Arizona Department of Education estimated 2024 Empowerment Scholarship Enrollment...
Read More >Celebrating capstone career of Mike Sullivan
Veritas Preparatory Academy, a founding member of the prestigious Great Hearts Academy in the Phoenix metropolitan area, held a joyous...
Read More >Operation Illinois Exodus
The map below shows states with either major school choice expansions or pending major expansions (green). I may be missing...
Read More >The wild west and the shaping of the adjacent possible
Aaron Churchill, Ohio research director for the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, has released a new report on charter schools in...
Read More >The Empire (state) strikes out
The recently passed New York budget included a deal for 14 new charter schools, certainly a welcome development. With an...
Read More >Suburban charter schools, open enrollment pushing over first domino
National Charter Schools Week is upon on us, which is an excellent time to review the differences between awesome and...
Read More >Florida: America’s ‘New Colossus’
The Wall Street Journal recently published the below graph showing Florida as the going away migration winner of recent years...
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