Good morning, CharterFolk.
I wrote over the weekend again about the National Crack Up — Red States and Blue going in different directions on education policy.
There’s also an International Crack Up going on.
The U.S. goes in one direction.
China another.
Xi Jinping’s speech last week built on his January announcement on the same topic.
One country embraces a more muscular national involvement in education. The other sends all power to the locals.
Meanwhile, Fortune sees China having a faster adoption rate of AI in education. It references DeepSeek …
… in the same week that DeepSeek became old news as it relates to China’s leap forward in AI.
Demand is so high for Manus that people are paying $14,000 on the resale market just to get early access to the product. Check out this demo video if you haven’t seen it yet, and ask yourself …
… are we even scratching the surface for what this all means for the future of education?
Here in the states, we litigate age-old issues.
The Times weighed in over the weekend on the impending Supreme Court case with a thorough analysis.
A CharterFolk reader responded to my highlighting of a history of education segregation in New Orleans by recommending a book on the same topic as it unfolded in Nashville. I’m halfway through it, and it’s proving to be another powerful and well-crafted account.
Here’s some new research on why it happens.
This article from Bloomberg in from mid-February reports about striking levels of inflation in private school tuition.
Apparently many factors are contributing, not just new subsidies coming from government. Still, the contrast in average private school costs vs the size of average vouchers/ESAs certainly leaps out.
Future-Ed has its tracker going again this year on private school choice bills. There are a lot of them.
Here’s two minutes from Thomas Arnett at Christensen Institute about what charter schools could do to increase impact.
I don’t agree with all the history that Thomas presents, but it’s thought-provoking nonetheless.
Finally, Matt Ladner did an analysis of charter school NAEP scores in comparison to their school districts. There are significant limitations to the data set, but the image shows that the overall story is fairly plain to see.
Encouraging.
Thank you, Matt.