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Rocketship Education information session at 5:00 p.m. Tuesday
As mentioned earlier, Rocketship Education is a network of high-performing charter schools that is expanding nationally—and now possibly to Texas. Rocketship is hosting an information session at 5:00...
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Rocketship Education has “schoolteachers,” my son says
At the Rocketship Education information session yesterday, we watched a new video about Rocketship’s learning model and expansion plans. My five-year-old son is learning to read and couldn’t resist...
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Rocketship Education video: rethinking elementary
Rethinking Elementary School from the Ground Up from Rocketship Education on Vimeo. Rocketship Education, a Choose to Succeed partner CMO, is applying for a Texas charter this year. The Rocketship “new...
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Choose to Succeed launches new website
Choose to Succeed has a spiffy new website with helpful information explaining their mission: In 2011, the George W. Brackenridge and Ewing Halsell Foundations began to analyze student achievement data...
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Charter school bill’s impact on Rocketship Education and other out-of-state...
A recent story from KUHF 88.7 FM Houston Public Radio praises Rocketship Education, noting “their schools have posted some of the best results for low-income kids in the entire state of California.”...
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The Economist on Rocketship and blended learning
A recent article in The Economist on technology in education includes comments on Rocketship Education: Rocketship, a chain of seven charter schools in San Jose, California, blends traditional teaching...
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Carpe Diem Schools national expansion: coming soon to San Antonio, Texas?
I am following several Generation 18 charter applications at the Texas Education Agency this year, including Rocketship (earlier post), Montessori For All (earlier post), and Carpe Diem Schools...
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Charter schools help make San Antonio a “City on the Rise”
Lorenzo Gomez, Executive Director of the 80/20 Foundation and an SA2020 board member, has a “micro-script” for San Antonio: “A City On The Rise.” So why did these four words hit me the way they did? I...
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Rocketship Education parent information session on March 20, 2014 at 6:30 p.m.
Rocketship Education is hosting a parent information session on Thursday, March 20, 2014 at 6:30 p.m. at the Cortez Branch Library, 2803 Hunter Blvd., San Antonio, Texas 78224 (map). RSVP at...
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CLOSED [Giveaway] A parent-activist reads Richard Whitmire’s “On the Rocketship”
Richard Whitmire‘s new book, On the Rocketship, starts off right, with this dedication: To the true disruptors: Rocketship parents pressing for better middle schools and high schools. The author gave...
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