Posts tagged Charter Schools
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DC wants charters in 4 closed schools, and KIPP is interested
Charter schools could soon occupy 4 campuses which housed DC public schools until the latest round of school closings. KIPP DC, part of the highly successful national chain of charter schools, plans to make a bid for one of them, the Hamilton school in Ivy City near Ivy City and Gallaudet. Keep reading…
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Residency programs make teachers effective from the start
It’s hard for new teachers to get the practical skills they need, whether through traditional schools of education or more recent alternative routes to teacher certification. A new model trains teachers like doctors, giving them hands-on, supervised classroom experience. For decades, there have been complaints that schools of education have low admissions standards,… Keep reading…
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School culture is crucial to charter schools’ success
A recent study shows that DC charter schools, on average, outperform DC Public Schools. Why? One reason may be that they’re better at creating a “school culture.” A well-respected study of charter school outcomes released last month concluded that DC charter schools do a far better job educating students than traditional public schools. As the Post noted… Keep reading…
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Here’s the DC school ranking you should be looking at
People make a lot of decisions based on school test scores. Parents select schools for their children. Administrators fire principals and close schools. But few realize that they are using the wrong scores to make these important decisions. Most people use the “percent proficiency” score, which measures what percentage of the students in… Keep reading…
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DCPS and charters team up to improve Chinese instruction
With help from DC’s Office of the State Superintendent of Education, students from 3 DCPS elementary schools are brushing up on their Chinese with help from students at Washington Yu Ying Public Charter School in Ward 5. OSSE awarded the 5-year-old school a $200,000 dissemination grant to share “best practices” in teaching Chinese. At Yu Ying, which my son… Keep reading…
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Can “restart” turn around low-performing charter schools?
When a traditional public school is failing, officials often decide to apply a turnaround strategy rather than to close it. Is it time to apply a similar approach to failing charter schools? With 43% of its public school students enrolled in charter schools, DC has the largest charter sector outside of New Orleans. But the quality of those charter schools varies greatly, with… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Caught on tape
Police ticket U turns on Penn; School buildings to charters; Outer Beltway opposition grows; Suburban versus urban poverty; Fragile Northeast corridor; Uber still hates regulations; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: New York analogues
Rediscover Columbus Circle; Settle down about bikeshare, NYC; Adams Morgan = West Village?; KIPP will have to wait for Randall; Board sanctions Orange; Take a look; Is your commute an idyll?; Flood-control parkway; And…. Keep reading…
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Education leaders want to end application “madness”
Parents trying to apply to out-of-boundary DC public schools or charter schools have to deal with a dizzying array of separate applications and last-minute shuffles. “It’s madness we’ve sent parents through,” said Councilmember David Catania last night, and called for a unified application and lottery for DCPS and charter schools. Catania was… Keep reading…
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Morning bell: Not their job
Low test scores, fire custodians?; Henderson addresses cheating; Graduation rate up… a bit; Charter can’t expand; Change the funding formula?; Obama cuts vouchers; Some don’t believe in public education; Get a D, mommy can’t eat?. Keep reading…