Ann Cronin on Connecticut’s Cliche Goals for Education
The Connecticut State Board of Education hired a new state commissioner who pledged to raise the graduation rate, close the achievement gap, and “Ensure that all students have increased access to...
View ArticleNew Orleans: How a Student Graduated Although She Could Not Count or Read
The parents of a student in New Orleans were dismayed when they realized that their daughter would graduate from high school even though she could neither count nor read. She was surely entitled...
View ArticleIndiana: State Graduation Rate is 87%, but for Charters, It is 40%
Why do the Disrupters continue to insist that charter schools will “save poor kids from failing schools,” when the evidence continues to accumulate that this is simply not true. According to the latest...
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Gary Rubinstein: That Misleading KIPP Research about College Completion
Gary Rubinstein has a deep aversion to hypocrisy, hypes, and propaganda. He read a widely publicized report saying “research shows” that graduates of KIPP have higher college completion rates than...
View ArticleGary Rubinstein: More Reform-Funded Nonsense About KIPP Graduation Rates
Gary Rubinstein is the Myth-Buster of the Resistance. He has achieved this eminent position because of his intolerance for hype, propaganda, and lies. In this post, he bust the myth that low-income...
View ArticleGary Rubinstein on Citizen Stewart and Eva Moskowitz
Gary Rubinstein writes here about podcasts in which Chris Stewart of Education Post interviews Robert Pondiscio and Eva Moskowitz. Gary has made a practice of scrutinizing the data that is available...
View ArticleAnn Cronin: Miguel Cardona, What Is Your Vision for American Education?
Ann P. Cronin is a former Connecticut Distinguished English Teacher of the Year, a school district administrator, and creator of award-winning programs for the teaching of English in middle schools...
View ArticleGary Rubinstein: Success Academy Attrition Rate Still 75%
Gary Rubinstein has followed the progress of the much-lauded Success Academy charter chain, supposedly the most successful in the nation. He has noted that SA graduates only a small fraction of those...
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“Left Behind: The Unintended Consequences of School Choice”: Kids with...
Jennifer Hawes Berry of the Post and Courier of Charleston, South Carolina, wrote this account of a Charleston high school struggling to improve and raise its graduation rate, even as its enrollment...
View ArticleNew York: Regents Board Debates Future of Graduation Exams
The “Regents Exams” in New York State were once a mark of accomplishment for students who chose to take them. They were considered rigorous and prestigious. But sometime in the 1990s, State...
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