SAN JOSE — Rocketship Education shot to national prominence by operating charter schools that produced stellar test scores from poor and immigrant students with a model focused on high-energy teaching ...

John Danner is leaving Rocketship Education, the innovative, Palo Alto-based K-5 charter school network he cofounded seven years ago, to become an entrepreneur again. He is starting an as yet unnamed ...

Palo Alto-based Rocketship Education has attracted national attention in the past few years for its innovative use of technology and impressive test scores for its largely low-income, Hispanic ...

Parents had until May 1 to enroll their children in schools matched through D.C.’s high-stakes school lottery. But families that selected a new Rocketship charter school in Ward 5 were in for a rude ...

This week’s profile of Rocketship Schools by NPR blogger Anya Kamenetz (here)--and the detailed response by Rocketship CEO Preston Smith (here)--raises three powerful questions, particularly for ...

CONCORD — After months of accusations that the Mt. Diablo school district was discriminating against its students and denying them equal access to public school facilities, Rocketship Futuro Academy ...

For the next 40 minutes, half the 4th graders here at Rocketship Sí Se Puede Academy, a charter elementary school in a low-slung building nestled below Highway 680, will be split between the language ...

Construction for the new Rocketship elementary school, a high-tech public charter elementary school in the District, got underway Tuesday in Ward 8. The D.C. Public Charter School Board gave the ...

Commentary about NPR’s recent coverage of Rocketship charter schools continued unabated over the weekend on Twitter and Facebook. The 6/24 story (High Test Scores — But At What Cost?) has been admired ...

Most teachers are young and inexperienced Vast majority have attended prestigious colleges Teachers can do what they love best: Teach big ideas SAN JOSE — Luis Zepeda is relentless. The fourth-grader, ...