NEW ORLEANS — Can the hyper-competitive, test-driven charter school approach to education reform provide a model for other cities? According to the “true believers” among the attendees at The Education Research Alliance for New Orleans’s “The Urban Education of the Future?” conference, the answer to this question is a resounding “Yes.” My definition of true believers is: […]

John Thompson
John Thompson was an award-winning historian and Oklahoma City teacher. He received his doctorate from Rutgers and blogs regularly at This Week in Education, Living in Dialogue, and The Huffington Post. His book, A Teacher's Tale, will be released this fall.