“Eva Moskowitz, the founder of New York City’s largest chain of public charter schools, imported a Harlem classroom to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to demonstrate how she trains and coaches teachers at Success Academy schools,” writes Lyndsey Layton in this morning’s Washington Post.

Eva Moskowitz, the founder of New York City’s largest chain of public charter schools, imported a Harlem classroom to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to demonstrate how she trains and coaches teachers at Success Academy schools.

Yesterday I made the pilgrimage to the Cannon House Office Building to see something different: a group of students and teachers showing what learning looks like, instead of just talking about it. This is normal in places like Japan, as Elizabeth Green described in her book Building a Better Teacher, but it happens very rarely in the U.S.

A few weeks ago, one of my fifth grade students asked a simple question that challenged me to think differently about my own pedagogy and powerfully illustrated the value of the Common Core’s commitment to a deeper, conceptual understanding of mathematics.

Eva Moskowitz, founder and CEO of Success Academy Charter Schools in New York City, is one of the most controversial — and successful — figures in public education reform. She met Thursday with the Tribune Editorial Board. Here are six points she made…

Students from Success Academy charter schools in the Bronx and Harlem captured three of the top 10 spots when 2.100 elementary school students from across the country faced off in the National Elementary Chess Championships in Nashville last weekend.

Two-thirds of the 16 million children living in poverty in this country don’t own any books, so when school lets out for the year, reading and learning does not just take a vacation, it deteriorates. This deterioration is known as “summer learning loss,” or “summer slide,” and it is disastrous, particularly for impoverished children.

New data show that New York City had 163.000 students on charter school waitlists last year — more than any other city in the country.

In an overburdened school system, NYC families should have an array of education options. They should be able to choose from zoned public schools, gifted and talented and special education programs, and specialized schools.

As a proud New York City educator who has taught in traditional public elementary schools, public charters and private schools, I wanted to know, both as a parent and a teacher, what theSuccess Academy hype was all about.

Across the state, students in grades three through eight have been sitting for three days of testing in English Language Arts and another three days for math. Many anxious families have been opting their children out of these standardized tests. Others have complained about the system as a whole and denigrate schools and teachers who embrace it.