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July tends to be a slow month for education reform with most legislatures and schools on break but you wouldn't know it this year with all the education reform activity.
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While I'm thrilled that the feds have provided a bit more clarity and money on fixing low-performing schools than the last administration, I've been amazed that there has not been more thoughtful discussion about what's worked and how to successfully pull off a turnaround. A thanks goes to Andy Smarick for raising critical questions, thoughtful analysis while Public Impact provides some great resources.
Check out the latest "best" high schools list. While I have serious concerns about the limited metrics for this list (AP and IB participation, not success), it's a great list of schools. Interestingly 15 of the top 100 schools nationally are charters. This is many times more what you'd expect given the small number of charter high schools. While I'm guessing that there are also a disproportionately high number of charters at the bottom (come on NACSA get these authorizers to close them), it does suggest that there is something to having small charter high schools.