Charter Schools Have An Awkward Secret: They're Not Very Good At Innovating

So a group of education entrepreneurs in New Orleans is helping them learn the ABCs of disruption, by starting small.

When Nia Mitchell took over as principal of Algiers Technology Academy, a New Orleans charter high school, she knew she wanted to introduce project-based learning into the curriculum. "That's the direction that we're going," she says. But she had her hands full—only 19% of her students were scoring at college-ready levels, or at least 18 out of 36, on the ACT, and only 65% were graduating within four years. Plus, her opportunities to observe project-based learning in action at other schools were few and far between.

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