School Choice and Racial Balance Sep 18 '08– Opponents of school choice claim white parents apply to good schools at a higher rate than minority parents, leaving larger concentrations of white students at some schools, and minorities packed into schools elsewhere. To rectify this, they say we... (more)
Memphis names new chief of schools Jun 11 '08– A school administrator in Miami has been named superintendent of Memphis City Schools.
Kriner Cash, chief of accountability and systemwide performance for Miami-Dade County Public Schools, was chosen Tuesday by the Memphis Board of Education.
Before... (more)
Ten Public Charter High Schools Among Best in Nation May 20 '08– Washington DC - Ten public charter schools are among the top 100 best high
schools in America as graded by Newsweek magazine's Challenge Index Rating, including
BASIS Charter School in Tucson, cited as the nation's top-ranked high school in the s... (more)
No Child Left Behind Lacks Bite May 13 '08– Critics of the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law, including
Democratic presidential candidates vowing to overhaul or end it, have
often accused it of being too harsh. It punishes weak schools
instead of supporting them, as Sen. Bar... (more)
Six books a week May 08 '08– THOSE who had won whooped with joy and punched their fists. The disappointed shed tears. Some 5,000 people attended April 17th's Harlem Success Academy Charter School lottery, the largest ever held for charter schools in the history of New York state... (more)
Study: Charter schools may improve graduation rates May 07 '08– Students who attend multi-grade charter high schools in Chicago appear more likely to graduate and to enroll in college than their counterparts in traditional public high schools, a study released on Wednesday found.
Students who went to the same c... (more)
