But how long will it be a customer? And how likely is it to happen somewhere else?   more »

Concrete evidence for why the virtual EMO's time for an IPO has come and gone.   more »

Or, specialty EMOs can work.   more »

What a contrast.   more »

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 »

Why Shut the Private Sector Out of the Bidding?   more »

In partnership with Education Week....   more »

A (rare) positive story about SES.   more »

A last encore presentation from January 12, 2004 - our first issue.   more »

Google Alert on "No Child Left Behind" for September 2.   more »

One of the architects of the states 1993 School Reform Act becomes Chairman of the State Board   more »

The likely law is shaping up. (Just don't expect it to be passed anytime soon.)   more »

The Department of Education's political leaders have not proved "highly qualified" to manage our emerging market.    more »

A study of southeast Wisconsin offers some useful policy insights for school improvement industry marketeers and advocates.   more »

What Can the School Improvement Industry Offer Teachers?   more »

Released by Representatives Miller, McKeon, Kildee and Castle.   more »

Providers, especially SES providers, looking for challenging school partners....   more »

Recruitment is to afressing the teacher shortfall as adding water is to fixing a leaky bucket.   more »

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 »

By way of truth in advertising, your editor wrote the first draft of a good part of this report.   more »

Department of Education releases 2007 Title I funding, district by district.   more »

Why Didn't the Industry Stay In With the Outs?   more »

As "Healthy Lifestyles Education," gym becomes a market for school improvement providers.   more »

The programs that should have been eligible for purchase under Reading First - or not.   more »

It's about the Senate, stupid. And what do you know about "real options?"   more »

It may win him something with the Republican right. But what else?    more »

Something beats nothing. So the University of Arizona's anti-privatization Education Policy Research Unit puts out the de facto report of record.   more »

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 »

Re: Cost Analyses of NCLB - Those Completed and Never Done   more »

District reform requires the "Consulting Architect"   more »

School boards and providers: Beware the "one-trick pony"   more »

A London Times story raises just that prospect. What do you know about the common law duty of care?   more »

Baltimore County's Articulated Instruction Model raises the question.   more »