With the school year coming to a close, a variety of recent pieces have reflected on several entrepreneurial organizations’ successes while also being clear about the challenges that lie ahead:

• Harlem Success Academy Students Outscore Peers, in Education Week (school operated by Success Charter Network)
• On a related note, don’t miss the new documentary The Lottery about families hoping for a slot at a Success Charter Network school, which opened in theatres this week. Recent of the film coverage includes Storming the School Barricades in the Wall Street Journal and the movie review Education by Chance in the New York Times
• Reasons to cheer at Anacostia High in the Washington Post (underperforming DC school being turned around by Friendship Public Charter School)
• A College Bonanza for Alliance College-Ready Public Schools in the Sacramento Bee
• Innovative schools collect data, look for small changes, intervene quickly and move resources to the formulas that work in Forbes (featuring Achievement First)
• The Littlest Schoolhouse in Atlantic Monthly (profile of one of NewSchools’ newest grantees, School of One)