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A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

The Hechinger Report

As of fall 2015, Coahoma County’s three private schools collectively had 7 percent African American enrollment amid public school systems that are more than 90 percent black. ohnson, a Little Rock native, came to the Arkansas side of the Delta in 2003 with Teach For America. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report.

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The Politics of Education Technology

Hack Education

The Common Core. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced in October of last year that he’d step down at the end of 2015. E-Rate has been, since the origin of the fund in 1996, the main way in which schools and libraries were supposedly guaranteed “reasonable rates” on telecommunications services.