January 26, 2017
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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?
December 15, 2016
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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…
December 6, 2016
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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…
September 29, 2016
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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…
September 7, 2016
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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…
August 10, 2016
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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.
July 20, 2016
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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…
June 22, 2016
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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…
June 8, 2016
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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…
May 16, 2016
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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.
