Governance and Its Limits
Ashley Jochim explains how the formal tools of public education governance can be limited because of institutional inertia and a weak leadership pipeline in this blog originally published in Fordham’s Flypaper. The push to raise standards and boost outcomes for students has placed states at the center of efforts to improve public education. But as […]
An Alternative View on Charter Schools and Backfill
After more than 20 years of working together, Paul Hill and I have finally found something we might really disagree on. Paul has legitimate concerns about the “backfill” issue (whether charter schools should be required to take students mid-year or after traditional entry grades), concerns that are grounded in his research with Gail Foster and […]
The Obligations of High-Output Charter High Schools
For good reason, the most widely admired charter high schools are the ones that take kids from the highest-risk categories (poverty, one parent, big city, black or Hispanic, male) and get them into and through selective colleges. It’s a big deal for one school to double or triple a big city’s numbers of potential minority […]
