A consensus has been emerging that tutoring is the best way to remedy learning loss (See here, here, and here). This is no surprise to parents. However, schools have been…
The Charlotte Observer reports that the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education hired Earnest Winston to be their new superintendent. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board moved swiftly Friday to name acting superintendent Earnest Winston to…
I think in 10 years — when we look back to try to figure out when Charlotte irreversibly headed toward Detroit-on-the-Catawba status — we may well decide it was the…
Nathan Glazer reviews Gerald Grant’s “Hope and Despair in the American City: Why There are No Bad Schools in Raleigh” for the new issue of Education Next. I find Glazer’s…
We await specific details of the topics covered in each grade, but the reorganization of middle grades social studies is a bit curious. Sixth Grade Current: South America and Europe…
Pete: Says here you are going to give a State of CMS Address tonight. Hope it is not too late for some suggestions. First, ditch about 80 percent of what…
In light of the recent Supreme Court decision that disqualified race as a major factor in student assignment, NBER just released a new quantitative study that takes a new look…
Wake will continue to get by with ?socio-economic? coercive assignment policies as long as no one takes legal action to equate ?socio-economic? as a cover for race. On September 21,…
And off the cliff we go. With the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education voting 7-2 last night for a $620 million bond package, the concept of fiscal restraint has been tossed…
In today?s Charlotte Observer Fannie Flono cites the ?community helped create schools,? which is true since communities make up customers attending schools. However, her accusation of the community, and the…
The local Knight Ridder outlet today offers a platform to a laughably transparent attempt to guilt-trip incoming CMS superintendent Peter Gorman into siding with defenders of the CMS status quo.…
Fellow Charlotte blog Nothing Could Be Finer evidently has a time machine or some supernatural power, given what was posted way back on November 9th and what transpired last night…