NOVEMBER 13, 2010 With ‘parent trigger,’ families can forcibly change failing schools. By DAVID FEITH Debates about education these days tend to center on familiar terms like charter schools and merit pay. Now a new fault line is emerging: “parent trigger.” Like many radical ideas, parent trigger originated in California, as an innovation of a […]
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AUGUST 30, 2010 After the Deluge, A New Education System Today close to 70% of New Orleans children attend charter schools. By LESLIE JACOBS New Orleans Five years ago yesterday, the levees broke. Hurricane Katrina flooded roughly 80% of this city, causing nearly $100 billion in damage. The storm forced us to rebuild our homes,
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JUNE 5, 2010 Storming the School Barricades A new documentary by a 27-year-old filmmaker could change the national debate about public education. By BARI WEISS New York ‘What’s funny,” says Madeleine Sackler, “is that I’m not really a political person.” Yet the petite 27-year-old is the force behind “The Lottery”—an explosive new documentary about the
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