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View Article  About Our Services and Editor
The basics of who we are, what we do and why we do it.   more »
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View Article  K12 Inc Gets Virtual Charter in Utah
But how long will it be a customer? And how likely is it to happen somewhere else?   more »
View Article  Disaggregating K12's Service Offering
Concrete evidence for why the virtual EMO's time for an IPO has come and gone.   more »
View Article  Educational Services of America in the Spotlight
Or, specialty EMOs can work.   more »
View Article  Not K12 Inc. (LRN). What About Scientific Learning (SCIL)?
What a contrast.   more »
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View Article  A "Must-Read" for Would-Be Investors in Virtual EMO K12
A survey of southern states virtual schools suggests a structurally fragmented market - and not the kind amenable to a roll-up, or much in the way of a first-mover advantage.   more »
View Article  9/4: The Podcast (2)
New Education Economy® is now School Improvement Industry Week

From the September 4 issue.

Letter From The Editor (listen here)
Our Service Lineup: This School Year’s Continuous Improvements
View Article  K-12Lead of the Week
Why Shut the Private Sector Out of the Bidding?   more »
View Article  Edbizbuzz Moving to Edweek.org
In partnership with Education Week....   more »
View Article  Man Bites Dog
A (rare) positive story about SES.   more »
View Article  9/4 The Podcast
A last encore presentation from January 12, 2004 - our first issue.   more »
View Article  From The Newspapers: Anti-NCLB Stories Are The Norm
Google Alert on "No Child Left Behind" for September 2.   more »
View Article  MA Board of Ed Chair Paul Reville's First Official Remarks
One of the architects of the states 1993 School Reform Act becomes Chairman of the State Board   more »
View Article  NY Times Sam Dillon's Take on NCLB Draft
The likely law is shaping up. (Just don't expect it to be passed anytime soon.)   more »
View Article  Feds Two Years Overdue in Review of States Under NCLB
The Department of Education's political leaders have not proved "highly qualified" to manage our emerging market.    more »
View Article  The Economic Impact Of Public Schools
A study of southeast Wisconsin offers some useful policy insights for school improvement industry marketeers and advocates.   more »
View Article  8/30: The Podcast
What Can the School Improvement Industry Offer Teachers?   more »
View Article  Bipartisan NCLB II Discussion Draft
Released by Representatives Miller, McKeon, Kildee and Castle.   more »
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View Article  K-12Lead of the Week
Providers, especially SES providers, looking for challenging school partners....   more »
View Article  Teacher Shortfall is an Opportunity for School Improvement Industry
Recruitment is to afressing the teacher shortfall as adding water is to fixing a leaky bucket.   more »
View Article  IDEA Offers Funding for NCLB Title I School Improvement Services
The optional 15 percent "Early Intervening Services" set-aside in IDEA for "struggling students" just short of special needs is an underappreciated funding stream.   more »
View Article  Quantity Counts: The Growth of Charter School Management Organizations
By way of truth in advertising, your editor wrote the first draft of a good part of this report.   more »
View Article  Parsing the Qualified Lead (VII)
Department of Education releases 2007 Title I funding, district by district.   more »
View Article  8/21: The Podcast
Why Didn't the Industry Stay In With the Outs?   more »
View Article  K-12Lead of the Week
As "Healthy Lifestyles Education," gym becomes a market for school improvement providers.   more »
View Article  What Works Clearinghouse on Beginning Reading
The programs that should have been eligible for purchase under Reading First - or not.   more »
View Article  Checker Finn On NCLB II
It's about the Senate, stupid. And what do you know about "real options?"   more »
View Article  Giuliani Reiterates Support for Public School Vouchers
It may win him something with the Republican right. But what else?    more »
View Article  Alex Molnar's Annual EMO Review
Something beats nothing. So the University of Arizona's anti-privatization Education Policy Research Unit puts out the de facto report of record.   more »
View Article  The News Hour's NCLB Series Offers A Warning
Your editor sees a new timeline for NCLB reauthorization. It may give the school improvement industry the breathing room it needs to survive - if the industry adopts a new strategy.   more »
View Article  8/14 New Education Economy®
Re: Cost Analyses of NCLB - Those Completed and Never Done   more »
View Article  K-12Lead of the Week
District reform requires the "Consulting Architect"   more »
View Article  District Turn-Around By Replication?
School boards and providers: Beware the "one-trick pony"   more »
View Article  Teacher Liability for Student Performance?
A London Times story raises just that prospect. What do you know about the common law duty of care?   more »