Daily Archives: September 1, 2022

Indianapolis: Low-Performing Charter School Reopens with a New Name — Diane Ravitch’s blog

Chalkbeat Indiana reports on the innovative way that a failing charter school fixed its problems: It changed its name! Ignite Achievement Academy is now the Genius School! There! Single-digit proficiency rates. Plummeting attendance. A work environment described in a former … Continue reading

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Whatever Happened to Learning Centers? — Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

Beginning in the late 1960s and extending through most of the next decade, an innovation swept across American elementary schools called “learning centers.” The idea was for teachers to give students far more choice than they would ordinarily have in … Continue reading

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