8/31/08
Los Angeles Time Op-Ed
America’s educational system is falling behind. We must find innovative leaders with a vision who can prepare children for the future they deserve.
By Cory Booker, John Doerr and Ted Mitchell Opinion, Los Angeles Times
August 31, 2008
In the summer of 1918, as tuberculosis, bubonic plague and a flu pandemic threatened America’s newly crowded [...]

8/31/08
New York Times
Winnie Hu
JERSEY CITY
HARLEY CABRERA felt trapped in her kindergarten class at parochial school, sitting behind a small desk day after day to memorize letters and numbers and to practice handwriting.
Edward Holland, a shy and soft-spoken boy, wanted to leave behind a public elementary school where loud and rowdy classmates hung out in the [...]

8/27/08
Columbus Dispatch
Catherine Candisky
Two Ohio charter schools will shut down at the end of the school year, the first casualties of a new state law targeting chronically poor-performing schools.
The schools, one in Youngstown and the other in Toledo, were ordered to close by the Ohio Department of Education because they received an F for academic performance [...]

8/27/08
Education Week
Vol. 28, Issue 01, Pages 26-27, 29
Larry Cuban
Over the past decade, a few urban superintendents have compiled uncommon records for longevity and accomplishment. With tenures of from five to 10 years and more, these intrepid schools chiefs have run largely minority and poor districts where test scores have risen, graduation rates have increased, and [...]

8/26/07
Columbus Dispatch
Most central Ohio charter schools, including statewide Internet schools and those run by school districts, landed at the bottom of the bunch in terms of state grades.
Of the 60 charters that serve the region, 24 got an equivalent of an F — more than double the number from last year. One received the top [...]