Doug McGray has written a terrific piece in this weeks’ New Yorker about Steve Barr and Green Dot Public Schools’ insurgent campaign to reform public education in Los Angeles–and now beyond. As with most good narrative articles, it’s not readily summarizable (and the endlessly quotable Barr makes it a lively read in any case, e.g. [...]
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Green Dot Rising
May 6th, 2009 | Category: Educational Choice
Posted by Kevin Carey at 7:41 am | Tags: AFT, Arne Duncan, Doug McGray, Green Dot Public Schools, LAUSD, New Yorker, Randi Weingarten, Steve Barr | 4 Comments
"School Choice on Steroids"
December 18th, 2007 | Category: Educational Choice
NPR’s Larry Abramson takes a trip to Mapleton school district outside of Denver, Colorado, where they are “trying to offer school choice on steroids.” But (unlike in baseball) this isn’t magic. Test scores are still low, and the idea of school choice hasn’t fully permeated the mindset of students and parents in Mapleton.
Despite offering [...]
Posted by Erin Dillon at 8:05 am | Tags: Denver schools, Green Dot, New Tech High, NPR, Steve Barr | No Comments
Maverick Leads Charge
July 24th, 2007 | Category: Educational Choice
For those of you intrigued by today’s front-page NYTimes story on Steve Barr, the guys who’s shaking things up out in L.A., Education Sector was on the story a year ago with this report.
Posted by Kevin Carey at 8:52 am | Tags: Charter Schools, Education Sector Research, Los Angeles Unified, New York Times, Steve Barr | No Comments
More on the Progressive Solution
June 12th, 2007 | Category: Accountability, Educational Choice
Kevin asks below what the progressive solution is the the entrenched, dysfunctional bureaucracies that stifle progress and success in too many of our urban school systems. I don’t presume to have the credentials to speak for progressives of liberals on this or any issue: I’m hoping Leo or Matt or Ed Muir and John See [...]
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College and Career-Ready: Using Outcomes Data to Hold High Schools Accountable for Student Success
03/19/10 | Ben Miller is quoted on college graduation rates and the NCAA Tournament in the Detroit Free Press.
03/19/10 | Linda Perlstein links to Education Sector's "College- and Career-Ready" event.
03/17/10 | Ben Miller's column on graduation rates and NCAA Tournament eligibility is mentioned on The Wall Street Journal's The Daily Fix.
03/17/10 | Kevin Carey's critique of Diane Ravitch's latest book is quoted in Doublethink's Conventional Folly blog.
03/15/10 | Ben Miller pens an op-ed for US News & World Report on using graduation rates to determine NCAA Tournament eligibility.