The right to school choice is also about the right to stay put
Fordham’s latest report, "New Home, Same School," analyses the relationships among residential mobility, school mobility, and charter school enrollment. It finds, among other things, that changing schools is associated with a small decline in academic progress in math and a slight increase in suspensions—and that residentially mobile students in charter schools are less likely to change schools than their counterparts in traditional public schools.
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Widening excellence gap
Chester E. Finn, Jr. 7.24.2019
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A debate about unschooling
Robert Pondiscio 7.24.2019
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It’s not grade inflation, it’s the education industry
Rafi Eis 7.23.2019
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A rising economic tide + reform + resources = better results for kids
Michael J. Petrilli 7.17.2019
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The federal Charter Schools Program: A short, opinionated history, part I
Chester E. Finn, Jr. 7.17.2019
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Tell high school students the truth about college readiness
Aaron Churchill 7.17.2019
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Scaling up proven charter school models
Amber M. Northern, Ph.D. 7.17.2019
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The implementation and impacts of reforms in Louisiana
Jessie McBirney 7.17.2019
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The Education Gadfly Show: One small step for man, one giant leap for our schools?
Michael J. Petrilli, David Griffith, Chester E. Finn, Jr., Amber M. Northern, Ph.D. 7.17.2019
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Musings on the moonshots
Michael Goldstein 7.12.2019
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A hypothesis: NCLB-era achievement gains stemmed largely from declining child poverty rates
Michael J. Petrilli 7.10.2019
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Public attitudes toward gifted education: Supportive, complacent, incomplete
Chester E. Finn, Jr. 7.10.2019
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