Educational Leadership

Law and logic prevent it. Essentially parents decide who goes.

Public charter schools, long protected as a bipartisan way to expand school choice, are suddenly in a political battle as both parties shift to other priorities.

Charter schools are privately run, publicly funded, and irregularly regulated. John Oliver explores why they aren’t at all like pizzerias.

What the research really shows.

Microsoft, Datacom - and a theatre company - have joined NZ's newest charter school.

Charter schools have fueled school resegregation in urban America.

No, they’re not always better than traditional schools. And there are fewer of them than you might think.

The real question for Democrats is how to get every student a good education.

An autopsy of the so-called school reform movement.

An author decides New York’s Success Academy is hard on parents but good for students.

The New Zealand government's move to close charter schools as part of its education reform has prompted strong Māori criticism.

It looks like the beginning of the end for charter schools in New Zealand, after Minister for Education Chris Hipkins introduced legislation on Thursday to repeal the legislation governing them.

Free-market boosters, including Betsy DeVos, promised that a radical expansion of charter schools would fix the stark inequalities in the state’s education system. The results in the classrooms are far more complicated.

The evidence is now overwhelming: One type of charter school has repeatedly shown impressive results.