The recent era of education reform has seen achievement gaps narrow, and low-income black and Latino students improve their graduation rates. Yet, as Hugh B. Price argues in a new paper for the Brooking Institution, “the bottom line, after all these years, all the interventions, all the testing and tough love,[Read More…]
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School district asks more of credit-recovery charter schools
We recent took a look at the rise of dropout-recovery charter schools, a niche that has blossomed under the radar around Florida, at times with the support of school districts. The Florida Times-Union reports some of these schools are coming under scrutiny from the Duval County School Board. On Tuesday, the board[Read More…]