Topic: Mastery
Guest Commentary: Repair the Pandemic’s Impact On Neighborhood Schools
Covid caused devastating learning losses, especially among low-income students. Here, Mastery Charter founder and CEO lays out a path to overcome them.
By Scott Gordon
Arise, Black Men, and Teach
Only 4.5 percent of Philadelphia teachers are black men. A Mastery principal urges more to heed the call to help build a better nation
By Sharif El-Mekki
Deconstructing Jerry
A school reformer takes on PFT President Jerry Jordan
By Kevin Trainer
The Comeback of Charters?
Twenty years in, good charter schools are self-policing and calling for the closing of bad ones. Is it enough to get the movement’s mojo back?
By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
How To Turn Around A Failing School
A change in culture and increased focus on literacy have started to show progress at Mastery’s Smedley Elementary, one of the city’s first Renaissance schools
By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy