Blog Archive for May, 2010

Brill-ing Down: Adding to Steve Brill’s NYT Magazine Report

UPDATE: Thanks to Aaron Pallas for pointing out an error. The enrollment for Harlem Success Academy in 2008-2009 was 398 students. The enrollment was 276 students in 2007-2008. Steve Brill’s...

Closing the Gap: Charter School Special Education Statistics

Last week, the New York State Senate passed a bill that would increase the number of charter schools in New York from 200 to 460. Included in the bill was...

April Research Round-Up

This is the second in our series examining the most interesting, most discussed academic research on education published each month. We’re publishing it a little early since May 1st was...