Spring Came, the Pandemic Improved, the Economy Got Stronger, But College Enrollment Numbers Actually Got Worse
Whitmire: Why Miguel Cardona Could Help End the School Culture Wars and Reverse College Enrollment Plunge for Low-Income Kids
New Data: College Enrollment for Low-Income High School Grads Plunged by 29% During the Pandemic
New Data: Sharp Declines in Community College Enrollment Are Being Driven By Disappearing Male Students
KIPP Launches First-Of-Its-Kind Alumni Network to Help Its 30K Graduates With Careers, Mental Health and Finances
All States Now Required to Track Students’ College and Career Readiness, but Few Do It Well and Some Not at All
How the Common App, the College Advising Corps and an AI Chatbot Are Saving the College Dreams of Low-Income Students During the Pandemic
‘That’s Not a Gap Year. That’s Just Not Going to College’: COVID-19 Erodes Equity Gains of First-Generation College-Goers
Whitmire: Nonprofit, Smart College Advising Groups Quickly Moved Online During COVID-19 — a Very Good Thing for Low-Income, First-Generation Students
Whitmire: The Wave of Higher Ed Shutdowns Threatens American’s Progress in Getting Low-Income, First-Generation Students to and Through College
A High-Poverty High School in Tennessee Is Using National Student Clearinghouse Data to Fuel a Revolution in Smart College Counseling
74 Interview: National Student Clearinghouse’s Michele Gralak on Helping Schools and Districts Put Data to Work for Their Kids
Whitmire: With DACA in Danger at the Supreme Court, The Against-All-Odds Success of These Undocumented College Grads Deserves Its Own Hearing
A Program That Successfully Propels Low-Income Students to (and Through) College Starts Its Work Years Before High School
New Research Shows Some 1 Million College Dropouts Returned to School in the Past Five Years and Earned Degrees
Whitmire: Both Fans and Critics of Success Academy’s Remarkable Results Will Find Something to Like in Pondiscio’s New Book. But Don’t Use It to Judge All Charter Schools
Charters and District Schools Share Strategies on Getting Low-Income Students Through College, Putting Uneasiness Aside
IDEA Understands That College Is the New High School — For the Texas Charter Network That Means Making It Attainable for Everyone
The Magic Moment: College Signing Days Make Rock Stars out of College-Bound Seniors, Inspiring Those Waiting in the Wings
Whitmire: As School Districts Collaborate With Top Charters and Foundations, We’re on the Cusp of a Breakthrough in Guiding Low-Income & Minority Students to a College Diploma
Change Agent: From Georgetown to Franklin & Marshall to Aspen, How Dan Porterfield Is Leading a Revolution to Get First-Generation Students Through College With a Degree
The Pride of 2009 From Rural North Carolina Reflect on How Their Lives Were Changed by the Chance to Go to College
Whitmire: New Pell Institute Study Finds ‘Critical’ Gap in College Success Between Low- & High-Income Students. Here Are 3 Reasons for Hope
Uncommon Schools’ New President Julie Jackson Talks Community Circles, Transition Points, College Completion & Loving Our Students
With High School Counselors Badly Outnumbered, Innovative Nonprofit Steps In to Offer Smart College Advising to Low-Income Students Across the Country
Whitmire: Responses to My Media Column Show We Do Have an Issue With Education Journalists and Charter Schools — a Sensitive One That Requires Reflection (and Lots of Data)
How a Houston Experiment in College Counseling Is Succeeding in Sending Low-Income, First-Generation Students to the Country’s Top Universities
Analysis: Why the Media’s Pendulum Swing Against Charter Schools Has Consequences — and Why Journalists Must Keep Their Spotlight on the Trajectory of Students
A ‘Bot’ That’s Changing the Game for College Selection: Meet the Midwest Software Whiz Whose Program Is Now Helping Students Find Better Fits — and Earn More Degrees
The 74 Interview: Priscilla Chan on Supporting Whole-Child Education, Nurturing Diverse Scientists and Measuring Success Beyond Math and Reading
Expanding the Community College-to-University Pipeline: Why More Elite Schools Are Embracing Transfers and the 15,000 Annual Community Graduates With 3.7 GPAs
When It Comes to Predicting Which College Students Will Actually Go On to Attain a Bachelor’s Degree, High School GPA Is King
Alarming Statistics Tell the Story Behind America’s College Completion Crisis: Nearly a Third of All College Students Still Don’t Have a Degree Six Years Later
How Opening a High School on a Rural Peanut Field Altered the Arc of a NC Town — and Doubled the College Degrees in 5 Years
Whitmire: New Study of Suburban Charter Middle Schools Misses Point — Again — About Low-Income, Minority Charter Grads and College Success
New Numbers Show Low-Income Students at Most of America’s Largest Charter School Networks Graduating College at Two to Four Times the National Average
Whitmire: Elite Colleges Empower First-Generation Students to Succeed Just By Letting Them Enroll. They Must Admit More of Them
Analysis: How Bloomberg’s $1.8 Billion Gift to Johns Hopkins Will Elevate the National Conversation About Helping First-Generation Students Complete Their College Degrees
Whitmire: As Success Academy Graduates Its First Class of 16 College-Bound Seniors, Don’t Bet Against It Someday Being Thousands
Exclusive: Data Show Charter School Students Graduating From College at Three to Five Times National Average
Are High Schools Adequately Preparing Teens for College? No One Really Knows. That’s Why Today’s GreatSchools Analysis Is One of the Most Important Education Reports in Years
Whitmire: Decrying ‘One Size Fits All,’ Hickenlooper Lays Bare Democratic Party’s Deep Divide Over School Choice
Whitmire: Why Boston’s Most Racially Diverse School Could Also Be the Country’s Most Interesting School Integration Story
Whitmire: Want to Serve Student Interests in District-Charter Partnerships? New Study Advises Tackling the Adult Politics First
Analysis: Why Are All the Stories About Boys Falling Behind Girls at School Ignoring the Forces Keeping Them There?
Whitmire: 7 Ways Charter Schools & Districts Are Remaking Education in Texas
Whitmire: Finding Brave New World of District/Charter Collaboration in Rebirth of Newark Elementary School
Top Charter Networks Worth the Disruption, Set High Accountability Bar for All Public Schools
The Georgetown Scholarship Program: Getting First-Generation Students Acquainted With College Early On
KIPP Alumni Leadership Accelerator: Realizing the Belief That Its Graduates ‘Are Going to Be the Change Agents of the Future’
They Are Some of America’s Best and Brightest Students. They’re Hoping Congress Will Let Them Stay Under DACA
Green Dot Public Schools: Not Just About Getting Students Into College, but Getting Them Into the Right Ones and Keeping Them There
KIPP NYC College Prep: Tracking Students Through Graduation — and Then Through College — Like No One Else in America
YES Prep: At the Birthplace of College Signing Day, ‘Pumping Out Kids Prepared and Ready to Roll’
Alliance College-Ready Public Schools: AMPing Up Its Alumni Network to Track & Guide Students Through College
Noble Network of Charter Schools: It’s Not Just About Going to College, but About Global Perspective & Leaving Chicago
Whitmire: In the State That Created High-Performing Charter Networks, College Success Is Lagging Behind Others
IDEA Public Schools Proving the Impossible Is Possible in Guiding Texas Alumni Through College Graduation
Achievement First’s Ambitious Alumni Goal: 75% College Success Rate
How Uncommon Schools Is Guiding Alumni Through College Graduation: GPA, SAT Scores & a ‘Dirty Little Secret’
Exclusive: Data Show Charter School Students Graduating From College at Three to Five Times National Average
Whitmire: Money, Hustle & Good Candidates Won LA Vote for Ed Reformers, but Tougher Fights Lie Ahead
Whitmire: In Bridging Charter-District Divide, Educators Collaborate to Make the Impossible Happen
Whitmire: Is DeVos Still Planning a School Tour With Weingarten? Here’s the First Place They Should Go
Whitmire: Charter Leaders Saw Too Much Damage to Students (and Their Own Future) to Embrace Trump’s Budget
Whitmire: Why the Charter Cap Fight in Massachusetts May Have Sparked a Tidal Wave of New Parent Applications
Whitmire: Dear Secretary DeVos, If You Want to Grow Great Charter Schools, Do This, Not That
Schooling, Reimagined: How Dacia Toll Shaped the Greenfield School By Borrowing From the Best
Whitmire: Welcome to the Trump Presidency — and the Hazy New Battle Lines of the Education Debate
Building the 3.0 High School: How Summit Basecamp Schools Pairs Teaching With Technology
Inside the 2004 Denver Summit That Changed the Course of America’s Public Charter Schools
Whitmire: Partnering With Charters, AppleTree Plants Seeds for New Approach to Early Childhood Ed
A ‘Founders’ Excerpt: How 4 Visionary Entrepreneurs Joined Forces to Launch Uncommon Schools
A ‘Founders’ Excerpt: How Joel Klein Found His Disruptive Force — and Reshaped NYC Education
Whitmire: Donald Trump, the Best (or Worst) Thing to Happen to School Choice?
Whitmire—Why Question 2 Lost in Massachusetts: The Better the Charter, the Bigger the Threat
Whitmire: Rocky Mountain Ties—In Denver, Charters Excel Working With District
Whitmire: MA Labor Leaders Challenge Parents on Charter Schools
A ‘Founders’ Excerpt: USC Hybrid High, a Los Angeles Breakthrough, Graduates Its Very First Class
‘It’s Heartbreaking’: Boston Parents Ask Why Their Wealthy Neighbors Are Fighting Charter Schools
A ‘Founders’ Excerpt: IDEA Charters in Texas – A Lone Star Charter Success Story
A ‘Founders’ Excerpt: The Noble Network of Schools Thrives in Chicago — Against All Odds
A D.C. Charter Wins $10M to Invent Virtual Reality Programs That Will Change High School — All of Them
74 Interview: RePublic Schools’ Ravi Gupta on the Next Frontier of the Education Reform Wars
All Over the Cap: The Fight for the Future of Massachusetts’ Charter Schools
The Accidental Activist: One Mom’s Unlikely Crusade to Bring Better Schools to Northern California
Whitmire: America’s Best Charter School Doesn’t Look Anything Like Other Top Charters. Is that Bad?
Whitmire: Why Do Many Big Donors Prefer Charter Schools? (Hint: It’s Not Because They Hate Unions)
Michael Bloomberg, the Education Candidate?
Whitmire: The Secret to Building the Next Gen High School? Forget All Your Middle School Successes
Impressive New Scores for Newark Charters Raise an Awkward Question: Did City Pick the Wrong Strategy?
Whitmire: New Report Shows Surging Charter Enrollment, But Could Breakthroughs Be the Prelude to a Backlash?
NYC’s Haven Academy, a Bronx Breakthrough Serving Kids in Foster Care That Carmen Farina Has Yet to Visit
Whitmire: L.A.’s $490 Million Charter Push and Crunching the Costs of Improving a City’s School System
Why Washington’s ‘Common School’ Ruling Runs Counter to the Common Good of Students
Whitmire: 5 Ways to Stop Bad Charters from Derailing Education Reform
Whitmire: Reformers Must Move Faster to Close Failing Charters, or Risk Backlash Bigger Than ‘Opt-Out’
Coast Guard to the Classroom: What One Heroic Pilot Learned When He Applied to TFA
Media Ignores New Orleans Success Because It’s Good News on Charters
Meet The Grandmother of America’s Best Charter Schools
All Charters Are Not Equal: Time to Shut the Worst and Learn from the Best