The Washington Post – Jay Mathews
“Some schools — usually with many more low-performing kids than Northwood or West Potomac have — are letting their administrators and teachers band together to experiment with required after-school tutoring, regular teacher visits to homes, more imaginative teaching, longer school days, and whatever else works for their communities. Would the Washington suburbs ever tolerate a system in which families could choose schools with radical approaches, such as insisting students pass the final exam or retake the course? Would any parents expose their children to such experiments?”(more)