More than three million students across California traded in pencils for computers to take their standardized tests last school year. You might have read about the statewide results of the California ...

Fielding phone calls from parents asking about enrollment is part of everyday business for schools, but for some charter schools, the person on the other end of the line may only be posing as a parent ...

Elementary and high school students enrolled in charter schools in California made greater gains on standardized tests than students attending traditional campuses between 1999 and 2001 but still have ...

While Mayor Bill Blasio touted gains in test scores by public school students that were announced Thursday, their peers in charter schools are still doing better: 63 percent of the charter students in ...

Education reform critics will sometimes argue that high-performing charters are only improving student test scores by teaching to the test. There is no actual improvement in human capital, it is ...

Mayor de Blasio may identify as a progressive champion of the underprivileged, but the reality is that he’s blocking the surest path to the middle class by relegating the city’s poor to inferior ...

A $490-million proposal backed by the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation to enroll half of the city’s students in charter schools will get a test this week when the Los Angeles Board of Education ...

Five big trends, from stagnant student performance to declining faith in colleges. By Dana Goldstein There was no shortage of news about American education in 2019. Presidential candidates debated ...

The National Education Policy Center (NEPC), which Kevin Welner directs, has received a grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies to study issues of access to charter schools. NEPC funding from the Ford ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A rarely applied experiment in education enabling companies to host taxpayer-funded charter schools for their employees’ children may be about to spread. Florida is the only state ...