Are charter schools really better at keeping kids from dropping out?
There is a common perception that charter high schools do a better job than traditional public high schools in preventing kids from dropping out. Is that true? Guy Brandenburg, who writes the GFBrandenburg’s Blog (which is subtitled “Just a blog by a guy who’s a retired math teacher”), looked at some data in Washington D.C. […]
Common Core backer: For public schools, it’s great. For my private school, not so much.
One of the big disconnects in Common Core advocacy is that a lot of the people who think the standards are vital to the future of America and want to see them implemented in public schools everywhere send their children to private schools that have not adopted the Core. President Obama comes to mind: His […]
All Week @ The Answer Sheet 3-29-14
The Answer Sheet:All Week @ The Answer SheetThe Koch brothers’ influence on college campus is spreadingThere’s been a flurry of recent stories (here, here and here, for example) about the role the billionaire Koch brothers are playing in politics by backing conservative political candidates through a number of organizations that they fund. My Post colleague Matea Gold wrote in this story: The poli