KIPP is a high-performing public charter school network. She is a brilliant historian and essayist, even if she does not share my fondness for this century’s biggest education reform: charter schools. But while the country struggles to make that happen, why can’t we, in the meantime, support those public charter schools that are preparing significant numbers of low-income children for college? Charter schools are still growing. At this critical moment for charter schools, with Ravitch so influential on the anti-charter side, her answer is important.

Source: Washington Post November 20, 2016 21:48 UTC