Parents as Teachers: A Middle-Class Entitlement
This article in the Kansas City Star celebrates the Parents as Teachers Program, and the fact that it makes no...
Charters Shouldn’t Have to Copy Traditional Public Schools
Worrisome news from Los Angeles suggests that some public school districts are not the “melting pots” that education lore makes...
A Small Improvement for the Virtual Instruction Program
The Missouri Virtual Instruction Program (MoVIP) is offering additional courses at the high school level through the National Repository of...
Do Charters Make the Grade?
Over the weekend, the Columbia Missourian ran an interesting article that questioned the effectiveness of Missouri’s charter schools. Using MAP...
Things I Like About the BASIS Charter Schools
I wrote in my last post about BASIS that the schools haven’t yet demonstrated the potential to scale up to...
Are Specialized Charter Schools a Problem?
Juliann Talkington at the Panama City Renaissance School Blog writes about specialized schools and their drawbacks: At 13, 14 and...
Choice as a Motivator
An article in the New York Times reports that choice in education can motivate students. The article is about eighth-graders...
How Online Courses Can Help
From some of the feedback I’ve received on my writing about virtual schools, I get the impression that readers think...
Language: “Armory of the Human Mind”
This brief report on the new Spanish-language version of the state attorney general’s website mentions the English-language amendment. Although, as...
CREDO Charter Study: Missouri an Outlier
The St. Louis Beacon and Kansas City Star both have stories about a recent study from Stanford University’s Center for Research...
This Is What I Meant
When I said we should stay calm about education, this is the kind of unnecessary panic I was warning against....
Q&A on the English-Language Amendment
A political science student contacted me this past week with some questions about the English-Language Amendment to the Missouri Constitution....
Language Learning
The St. Louis Language Immersion Schools blog has posted a series of essays describing immersion schools the faculty have visited...
The Wonders of the Market
I recommend this article in today’s Wall Street Journal about English education in China. Many Chinese children attend English-language classes...
Ode to the MAP, From Edudiva
Edudiva comments on districts’ MAP test preparation in a post titled “Ode to the MAP.” The issue is not drilling...
Charter Schools Succeed at Language Instruction
Charter schools, the public schools run by independent organizations that are continual subjects of debate, are often compared to traditional...
Learning English
Valerie Schremp Hahn is blogging about English language learners in the Missouri public schools. The latest news on this topic...
A Wise Math Decision in Wentzville
The Wentzville School District is adopting Singapore Math, the (English-based) math curriculum behind Singapore’s spectacular performance on international math exams....
New Charter Schools to Watch For
Two language immersion charter schools, focusing on French and Spanish, are scheduled to open in St. Louis during 2009. When...
English Only
It’s official: As a result of yesterday’s referendum, English will now be the official language of public proceedings in Missouri....
