Morning Shots
A Paige In History
Born To Rise
A driving passion to create for students a school that meets, even exceeds, standards she had for her own children’s schools is what drove Deborah Kenny to jump headfirst into the raging sea of opening a charter network, the Harlem Village Academies.…
Assault On Accountability
Whether one questions college and high school national rankings or not, everyone grabs for U.S. News & World Report’s issues that rate schools nationwide. We may quibble with which one is assigned top dog and which comes in third, but overall there is a sense that somehow the rating does justice to the service provided.…
What's Wrong with This Picture??
Why is this woman protesting the creation of new options for parents – as some of those parents look on – when she most likely doesn’t live in a bad school zone and clearly doesn’t have a clue as to the plight of people who do?…
Weekend Reading: What School Choice Has To Do With National Security
‘Do not Pass Go’, ‘Do Not Collect $200′, unless you’ve read “National Security Issue” from the Las Vegas Journal:
“It could hardly get more clear: The performance of the public schools has become so bad that even a bipartisan, middle-of-the road panel says the low educational attainment of our younger generations threatens American security.” READ MORE……


