Book review: Justin Murphy’s new book is an extensive examination of Rochester’s troubled schools – and a call to action to fix them.
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Killing public schools: Do critics realize what’s ahead?
Public schools are in trouble, and there’s plenty of blame to go around. But do critics know what their attacks will do?
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Public schools: white students becoming the minority
As students head back to school this week, they may find themselves playing a part in a historic change. This fall, minority students are expected to outnumber white students in the nation’s public schools for the first time, according to a report by the Pew Research Center. While much has been made of the demographic […]
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Quality issues in charter schools
Champions of charter schools were dealt a sobering reminder of their core mission recently: to innovate effective and new education models that can be successfully channeled into the nation’s broader public school system. A new report from Stanford University’s Center for Research on Education Outcomes questions whether this, after 20 years, is happening. According to […]
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What if we’re chasing the wrong ‘schools’ fix?
One of the more thought-provoking articles I’ve read recently is Jerry Muller’s “Capitalism and Inequality,” in Foreign Affairs. The subject: the United States’ growing income inequality. Liberals and conservatives alike will find plenty to dislike in what Muller says, but some of his points are hard to argue with. We’re spending enormous amounts of money […]
