EdTech

AI In The Classroom: What A Year Has Taught Us

It’s hard to believe we’re starting a second full school year with generative artificial intelligence (AI) in classrooms. From the start, there was a mix of excitement and nervousness about these new tools. It was clear that they had the potential...

Stories

Charter Schools

Student Praise for a Chicago High School Where Everybody Knows Your Name

When you go to school, you should never feel like just another seat in the class. Everyone in the school should know you by name—not just the teachers, but the engineer and the lunch ladies, too....

California

Thank You, Mom and School Choice, for Saving Me From Ninth Grade

From preschool till my freshman year of high school, my grandma and I would commute about 30-40 minutes each day to a different city so I would be able to attend better schools. This is where I...

Charter Schools

A Practical Approach to Closing For-Profit Charter Schools

National for-profit charter school operators have increasingly been in the press lately, and not for good reasons. Based on how often for-profit operators embarrass the charter sector, many are...

Charter Schools

Are Black Parents Sheep? How to Gin Up Charter School Fears With Subprime Mortgage Analogies

Like millions of Americans who took the deep dive into subprime mortgages with a viewing of “The Big Short,” I emerged from the theater seething at the unchecked avarice that led to the near collapse...

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