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Last week, Chester Finn, Jr. wrote a piece in Education Next, titled “Education’s Endless, Erroneous Either-Ors” (nice assonance). The piece...

Attending Canton Early College High School put Terrance Truitt on a pathway to success.

When TaQuaesa Toney learned about Youngstown Early College, she thought, “It sounded too good to be true. I was going...

KnowledgeWorks early college high school is a solid model where students have the opportunity to earn as much as 60...

Matt Williams writes about why the latest Race to the Top iteration adds to an increasingly disjointed education policy agenda....

Ohio Governor John Kasich delivered his annual State of the State address on February 24, 2014, in Medina, Ohio.

Kwame Boakye is a student at Akron Early College and is on track to earn his Associate in Arts Degree...

Yesterday the Donnell-Kay Foundation announced ReSchool Colorado, “a game changing, multi-year effort to create a new state public education system...

Governor John Kasich delivered his State of the State of Ohio speech last night in Medina, Ohio with several policy...

I read with great interest and high regard the recent ECS report, “Increasing Student Access and Success in Dual Enrollment...

Competency-based education shifts learning to an individualized pace and approach.

“Let’s face it, parents want schools to provide free babysitting,” a district superintendent said in one of my recent workshops...

After initial work is in place, the KnowledgeWorks team helps to make sure that the work doesn’t lose momentum or...

Harold Brown joined Judy Peppler and Greg Landsman for an-air interview on WVXU Cincinnati.

A K-12 Federal Policy Framework for Competency Education: Building Capacity for Systems Change is an attempt to jumpstart a conversation about...

Most of the reactions I’ve been seeing to last night’s State of the Union address fall predictably into three camps:...

When the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation started working the Early College High School Initiative (ECHSI) in 2002, they were...

When leading a workshop on the future of learning for the New Mexico Coalition of Educational Leaders last week, Katherine...

CompetencyWorks released a new report focused on helping education leaders think through the grading principles and policies to help communicate...

At KnowledgeWorks early college high schools, we create individualized learning plans for students, provide them the necessary supports and create...

In a talk, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said that one problem the United States faces in terms of academic...

Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. are visiting Frederick Douglass High School to discuss new...

this infographic tells the big story of changes we believe point the way toward a diverse learning ecosystem in which...

Many schools are re-thinking summer and academic engagement by creating fun and educational learning opportunities oftentimes called Summer Bridge.