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In this blog, we share perspectives on curriculum, culture, college success, and the challenge and promise of providing an excellent public education in underserved communities.

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A second year of major gains

September 6, 2017 | Steven Wilson

We are especially pleased by our progress toward our goal of being the strongest network of charter schools in the city while holding true to our commitment to operate truly public schools that enroll all students.

Liberal education has never mattered more

March 21, 2017 | Steven Wilson

If we are to safeguard the future of America’s children, we must commit to providing them an expansive general education. The very future of democracy may depend on it.

Why I send my son to a charter school: the teachers care

January 26, 2017 | Kathy-Ann Hosten-Peters

I am a big advocate of school choice and have trouble understanding the critics I read about in the press. Don’t they realize that high-performing charter schools are by far the best public school option for parents like me in cities across the country?

Diane Ravitch: A reply

December 15, 2016 | Steven Wilson

There is no historian of American education I admire more than Diane Ravitch; her fair-minded scholarship has inspired me throughout my career. How painful it is then to read her recent writings in…

Love beats fear in school culture

December 6, 2016 | Marsha Gadsden

This fall I had the privilege of attending a convening hosted by the U.S. Department of Education on the cultural practices of schools across the United States. I was pleasantly surprised to hear…

Déjà vu: the Massachusetts charter fight

September 29, 2016 | Steven Wilson

An epic education fight is underway in Massachusetts. In November, voters will decide whether to lift the cap on the number of charter schools in the Commonwealth and permit up to 12 new…

Our common cause: Black Lives Matter and urban charters

September 7, 2016 | Steven Wilson

This summer, both the NAACP and the Movement for Black Lives, a network of Black Lives Matter organizations, proposed moratoriums on the growth of charter schools. That the venerable NAACP, long captive to…

On the path to educational equality

August 10, 2016 | Brandon Sorlie

It’s working! Ascend’s innovative liberal arts curriculum and unique cultural model are fostering an abiding love of learning and raising achievement levels.

What does it mean to be “truly public”?

July 20, 2016 | Steven Wilson

At Ascend, our commitment is to operate public schools. Schools that enroll all children, regardless of special needs or English language proficiency or prior struggle in school. Schools that operate on the public…

Beyond No Excuses: a teacher’s view

June 22, 2016 | Ashley Roberts

When I read Steven Wilson’s blog post Beyond No Excuses: the promise of student agency, I immediately connected with his message on No Excuses schools. Having worked at one, his words caused me…

Building a liberal arts curriculum, inspiring independent thinkers

June 8, 2016 | Elizabeth (Betsey) Hun Schmidt

Two years ago, we decided to do something highly unusual: completely overhaul our entire curriculum, from kindergarten to high school. The new Ascend curriculum would respond to the challenge of the Common Core…

Beyond No Excuses, the promise of student agency

May 16, 2016 | Steven Wilson

It’s hard to break with something for which you have long advocated. But several years ago that’s what we knew we had to do.

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