It’s the education journalism version of the Golden Ticket. But who’s won? We don’t know. Last week in New York City, the Spencer Education Fellowship advisory board picked four lucky journalists to be...
Read MoreAn image from Chalkbeat’s spring networking event last week. The network just announced a new pilot Detroit bureau to go along with current coverage for New York, Indiana, Tennessee, and Colorado. Given the many challenges...
Read MorePARCC testing begins again but still no opt-out policy Chicago Sun-Times: For its second year, PARCC has been shortened. It has a simpler format, and results have been promised much sooner than last year — by the summer, rather...
Read MoreThe Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools https://t.co/0s5VVmKaFk pic.twitter.com/cJp7qBjyZ7 — White House Af-Am Ed (@AfAmEducation) March 19, 2016 BEST OF THE WEEK EdWeek: State Solidarity Erodes on Common-Core Tests...
Read MoreHappy Friday. I’m working on a couple of longform pieces today. But that doesn’t mean I won’t be sharing out news, commentary, and all the rest. You can check out all my updates here, or on Facebook (Alexander...
Read MoreAccording to last week’s WNYC series, NYC Charters Retain Students Better Than Traditional Schools — though different networks fare differently (see below). Yep, that’s right. In contrast to the findings from...
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