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School Choice
Worcester County Board of Education was deceived at the December 2023 meeting. In December I sat through an exhausting Worcester County Board of Education meeting where one person after another after another came to the table and gave his or her opinion on the appropriateness of materials in schools. The Coordinator of Instruction for School …
Tell people you teach middle school and you’ll get one of two responses:
You are a saint.
Ew, why?
Middle school teachers can go on for hours about why it’s …
At least once a year, one of my freshmen would ask me why everything we read in ninth grade English was so depressing. A quick look at our curriculum revealed they did …
Nina Rees, head of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, sat down with Education Week to discuss the future of charter schools.
Families want more options for their children. That doesn’t mean they dislike their local schools.
As Republicans and Democrats fight over private school choice, charter schools are left in the middle.
Students at one private school earn "learning credits" rather than traditional grades. What does that look like?
Researchers who have studied the evolution of charter schools over two decades find that their performance has improved over time.
Researchers who have analyzed charter school performance since 2000 now find that charters are outpacing traditional public schools.
Whatever happened to the results of MCAP from the Spring of 2022? For those who have forgotten, the MCAP is the Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program. It is Maryland’s standardized testing program that is implemented every Spring. What was different in the Spring of 2022 is that it was the first assessment of any significance since …
Whatever happened to the results of MCAP from the Spring of 2022? Read More »
Can you send your child there instead of a Maryland K-12 school? Do they cost anything? The answer is not too complicated. Over the past decade, there has been an incredible increase in the number of these online schools. Many offer completely online services, and some offer hybrid. These online schools can offer both asynchronous …
What’s the Deal With all of These Online K-12 Schools? Read More »