by sachartermoms | Jul 18, 2012 | Latest News
Texas Monthly senior executive editor Paul Burka interviewed Robert Scott on his last day (July 2) as commissioner and summarized the standardized testing debate. “The Big Test”, Paul Burka, Texas Monthly, August 2012. Burka asked Scott about his criticism...
by sachartermoms | Jul 17, 2012 | Latest News
Erin Carroll, a pre-K teacher at Highland Park Gifted & Talented Academy (a charter school), offers her perspective on Mayor Julian Castro’s Brainpower Initiative. She reports seeing big differences between kindergarteners who show up with pre-K experience...
by sachartermoms | Jul 16, 2012 | Latest News
Dallas ISD closed nine campuses at the end of the 2011-12 school year. “Dallas ISD says it won’t sell school buildings that were closed this month”, Dallas Morning News, June 11, 2012. The editors at the Dallas Morning News propose that high-performing...
by sachartermoms | Jul 14, 2012 | Latest News
Education reform writer Richard Whitmire urges parents to tune out the noise and notice that both President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney agree that we should be building more great charter schools. “Obama and Romney Right to Agree on Charters”,...
by sachartermoms | Jul 13, 2012 | Latest News
New York Times columnist David Brooks recently wrote about the “boy crisis.” What if Shakespeare’s Henry V were a rambunctious boy going to an American school today? But the big story here is cultural and moral. If schools want to re-engage Henry,...
