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The Kids Are All Right
Ten9Eight, a new documentary by Mary Mazzio, looks at how turning kids into budding businesspeople may be the antidote to the dropout crisis.
When President Obama delivered his stay-in-school speech, reminding students for the umpteenth time that they can’t all grow up to be rappers and basketball players, he caused a stir. It sparked overblown controversy, but it also brought into the national conversation the fact that every year, 1.2 million kids drop out of school—or, one…
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Which State Has the Worst School System?
There’s a lot of focus right now on innovation in education: how to support it nationally, how to find smart local solutions that can work at scale, how to get our schools out of the gutter, quite simply. And since sometimes it’s helpful to know what’s wrong in order to figure out how to make it right, a handy new report—which is utterly depressing—might provide some clues. Some states fared okay; others totally bombed. How…
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Suing the State Over Crappy Education
Only the ACLU would think of this: They have banded with parents and student of Palm Beach County and mounted a trailblazing class-action lawsuit, the only of its kind (ever?), claiming that students’ constitutional rights are being violated by the incredibly horribly awful schools there, which result in low graduation rates, particularly among blacks and Latinos.
The county, for its part, says it’d doing a fine job, of course. So let’s look real quick at the numbers.
According…
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Schools not Troops?
In case you missed it, Nicholas Kristof had an interesting piece about Afghanistan late last week where he posits that instead of a doomed-to-fail attempt at counterinsurgency, we should spend the money on education instead. Why? Because “for the cost of a single additional soldier stationed in Afghanistan for one year, we could build roughly 20 schools there.”
He builds the argument well, citing awesome organizations that have successfully built and maintained schools in the country—none of which get…
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The GOOD 100: KIPP Schools
A Case Study
Fewer than one in five students in the nation’s low-income areas will attend college. But at KIPP charter schools, the inverse is true: Better than 80 percent of students who complete eighth grade at a KIPP school continue on to higher learning.
MISSION “To provide high quality public education for all children.”
VITALS Founded as a downtown-Houston fifth-grade charter-school program in 1994 by Teach for America alumni Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin; 82 tuition-free charter schools in 19…
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The GOOD 100: The Teacher Salary Project
Spend and Deliver
Everyone knows teachers aren’t paid enough. But what we don’t often think about is the effect of that meager paycheck. Teachers play a huge role in the educational outcomes of their students, but they’re leaving the profession in droves. Forty-six percent of public-school teachers bail within their first five years. That the average annual salary for a new teacher is only $35,000 isn’t helping to retain talent. People who are good at teaching have…
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Finally
I’m so excited to share this magazine (or dare I say MAVERICK?) with as many people as I can. It keeps me up at night.
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Project 012: Brainstorm
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Suing the State Over Crappy Education
Only the ACLU would think of this: They have banded with parents and student of Palm Beach County and mounted a trailblazing class-action lawsuit, the only of its kind (ever?), claiming that students’ constitutional rights are being violated by the incredibly horribly awful schools there, which result in low graduation rates, particularly among blacks and Latinos.
The county, for its part, says it’d doing a fine job, of course. So let’s look real quick at the numbers.
According…
Read & Discuss
Schools not Troops?
In case you missed it, Nicholas Kristof had an interesting piece about Afghanistan late last week where he posits that instead of a doomed-to-fail attempt at counterinsurgency, we should spend the money on education instead. Why? Because “for the cost of a single additional soldier stationed in Afghanistan for one year, we could build roughly 20 schools there.”
He builds the argument well, citing awesome organizations that have successfully built and maintained schools in the country—none of which get…
Read & Discuss
Finally
I’m so excited to share this magazine (or dare I say MAVERICK?) with as many people as I can. It keeps me up at night.
Read & Discuss
The Kids Are All Right
Ten9Eight, a new documentary by Mary Mazzio, looks at how turning kids into budding businesspeople may be the antidote to the dropout crisis.
When President Obama delivered his stay-in-school speech, reminding students for the umpteenth time that they can’t all grow up to be rappers and basketball players, he caused a stir. It sparked overblown controversy, but it also brought into the national conversation the fact that every year, 1.2 million kids drop out of school—or, one…
Read & Discuss
The GOOD 100: KIPP Schools
A Case Study
Fewer than one in five students in the nation’s low-income areas will attend college. But at KIPP charter schools, the inverse is true: Better than 80 percent of students who complete eighth grade at a KIPP school continue on to higher learning.
MISSION “To provide high quality public education for all children.”
VITALS Founded as a downtown-Houston fifth-grade charter-school program in 1994 by Teach for America alumni Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin; 82 tuition-free charter schools in 19…
Read & Discuss
The GOOD 100: The Teacher Salary Project
Spend and Deliver
Everyone knows teachers aren’t paid enough. But what we don’t often think about is the effect of that meager paycheck. Teachers play a huge role in the educational outcomes of their students, but they’re leaving the profession in droves. Forty-six percent of public-school teachers bail within their first five years. That the average annual salary for a new teacher is only $35,000 isn’t helping to retain talent. People who are good at teaching have…
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Project 012: Brainstorm
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