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Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

The Hechinger Report

“The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning. Related: In one state, students are ditching classrooms for jobs.

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Segregated schools are still the norm. Howard Fuller is fine with that

The Hechinger Report

It’s the first week of school at Milwaukee Collegiate Academy, a charter high school Fuller founded in 2003 that’s housed in a low-slung concrete warehouse just a five-minute drive from the North Division campus. It’s a strategy Fuller views as a necessary contradiction, but that others say has undermined his credibility. The trade-off.

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