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Charter Authorizing Panel approves applications for four new charter schools

The state Charter Authorizing Panel met twice this week (yesterday and today) to hear seven separate requests for new public charter schools in Arkansas. The panel approved four of those applications, denied one and tabled the final two until a later date. Those decisions can still be changed by the State Board of Education, which next meets on Nov. 13 and 14.
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KIPP: Delta receives $500,000 from Walton Foundation for public-charter partnership

The "KIPP Through College” program places college counselors in Helena-West Helena's Central High School (which is just down the road from KIPP's campus in Phillips County) as well as Marianna High School in nearby Lee County.
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Speaking of charter schools: 'Innovative' discipline

Since charter schools are high on my agenda today, here's a relevant article on the general topic from Salon. 

Little Rock school expert argues for continuation of magnets, transfer programs, but focused on economic integration, not race

The results were unmistakable: low-income students attending lower-poverty elementary schools (and living in lower-poverty neighborhoods) significantly outperformed low-income elementary students who attend higher-poverty schools with state of the art educational interventions.
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Charter school spending: Is it really less?

The Billionaire Boys Club held their charter school pep rally yesterday and one of the most popular cheers was that charter schools do more (no solid proof of that yet in any peer-reviewed comprehensive study) for less money than public schools.

How to assess charter school success

I took a most unscientific stab at this topic in my column this week. I noted the shortcomings in a University of Arkansas ranking published in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that assigned a number score to every school in Arkansas based on the national Iowa Test.
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School rankings: One size doesn't fit all

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette devoted a significant amount of real estate in the Sunday newspaper to some number crunching by the Walton-financed school reformers up at the University of Arkansas.

Education: It's the poverty, stupid

An op-ed in the New York Times by a Duke professor and education writer joins the growing chorus that the education reformers are giving too little attention to the root cause of a huge proportion of the problems in education — poverty and the difficult family life it brings.
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Student achievment: It's the parents, stupid

Tom Friedman's column in the New York Times caught my eye this morning. It's discussion of the PISA test, used internationally to measure achievement of 15-year-olds, a test on which American students lag behind places such as Singapore, Finland and Shanghai.

School tests illustrate NCLB failure

A number of correspondents have written to call attention to a short followup story in the Democrat-Gazette (pay wall) today that gives a full recitation of how Arkansas charter schools fared in meeting standards on state benchmark tests.
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In school, character counts

A New York Times magazine article this week is a reminder that there are many ways to refract theories from the prism of education.

KIPP schools: High dropout rates for black males?

Interesting story in Education Week. KIPP charter middle schools enroll a significantly higher proportion of African-American students than the local school districts they draw from, but 40 percent of the black males they enroll leave between grades 6 and 8, says a new nationwide study by researchers at Western Michigan University.
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