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According to a new study by a Stanford University research group analyzing six years of test data, elementary and middle school students in charter schools in New York City made bigger gains in math and reading than their district coun...Read More

  Considerable research has been conducted in recent years showing that, through practice or other repetitive processes, connections between relevant parts of the brain can be physically reinforced strengthening these pathways.  A new s...Read More

  Remember those ubiquitous “Baby Einstein” videos?  A New York Times article today reports that twelve years since the introduction of the hit product, which netted nearly $200 million a year in revenues, Disney is taking the unu...Read More

According to a report in the New York Times today, “the latest results on the most important nationwide math test show that student achievement grew faster during the years before the Bush-era No Child Left Behind law, when states wer...Read More

Interesting research on impact of New York City charter schools on student achievement.  In summary: "On average, a student who attended a charterschool for all of grades kindergarten through eight would close about 86 percent of the 'Scarsdale-Harl...Read More