Please join us Saturday morning, December 7 for this Free Parent Workshop – a discussion with experts on strategies to keep your child’s learning on track during school breaks. Educators call it the “Vacation Slide,” and you can avoid it. Topics include recommended free o...
Results released today from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), known as the Nation’s Report Card, seem to reinforce what educators have observed for decades – that making gains in academic proficiency for substantial populations of students generally remains a slow and d...
Will a proliferation of new microschools offer a better solution for a new generation of students? A growing community within education believes they just might. What is a microschool? While strict definitions are not common, microschools are typically described with these characteristics: A microsc...
Democratic primary voters favor expanding access to public charter schools, while strengthening accountability for results, by a four-to-one margin, according to a new national poll released this week by the Benenson Strategy Group, hired by Democrats for Education Reform. The poll found that 84 per...
It’s late May, and even though the temperature in the auditorium has crept beyond comfort level, the room is filled with patient parents, grandparents, and extended family members. They are here to watch their students perform in this year’s fourth and final University Night, a collection of art...