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These hybrid schools are blowing up the public education model

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Without Classrooms or Grades, Students Rule This School

It’s not the usual kind of learning going on in the Minnesota New Country School.

Claire Moses | Jul 30, 2009 | Comments 9

One St. Paul teaches the German language in every class. Why?

Claire Moses | Jul 30, 2009 | Comments 1

Why an Afro-centric school doesn’t believe it is contributing to re-segregation.

Claire Moses | Jul 30, 2009 | Comments 3

Charter school education is creating safe havens for niche groups — is that meeting their needs or resegregating them?

Maura Walz | Jul 30, 2009 | Comments 11

Some charter schools have flourished by targeting specific racial, ethnic or other demographic groups.

news21admin | Jun 04, 2009 | Comments 0

Interactive - The Charter Explosion

Track the dramatic expansion of charter schools across the U.S. and trace the major factors in this important trend, with our interactive map and timeline.
Reporting Education -- Through the Charter Lens

Since early 2009, the Columbia News21 team took notebooks, cameras and curiosities to places such as New Orleans, the Twin Cities, Newark, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C., to explore the new marketplace of hybrid, public-private schools.
The result is this web site -- a deeply reported, richly multimedia and interactive web site, produced by a dozen Columbia journalism fellows, their editors and a group of new media producers.
Travel History with Our Interactive Timelines

Learn how Catholic school education and American Indian school programs have developed since the country's founding, in our clickable multimedia timelines.
Watch Storm's Impact on New Orleans Schools
National Charter Schools Conference Coverage

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