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Publications
June 23, 2010
Common Education Standards: Tackling the Long-Term Questions
How should the "common core" state standards initiative be governed? Who will "own" these standards (and related assessments) 20 years from now? To stir smart thinking about important aspects of these vital issues, the Fordham Institute invited knowledgeable experts to write background papers.
May 25, 2010
Needles in a Haystack: Lessons from Ohio's high-performing, high-need urban schools
Despite the overall dismal performance of schools serving Ohio's poor, urban youngsters, there are a handful of schools that buck these bleak trends and achieve significant results for their students. This report examines eight of these schools.
April 28, 2010
Charter School Autonomy: A Half-Broken Promise
The typical U.S. charter school lacks the autonomy it needs to succeed, once state, authorizer, and other impositions are considered. For some schools--in some states, with some authorizers--the picture is brighter but for many it's bleak. State-specific grades for charter autonomy range from A to F.
February 18, 2010
America's Private Public Schools
More than 1.7 million American children attend what we've dubbed "private public schools" -- public schools that serve virtually no poor students. In some metropolitan areas, as many as one in six public-school students -- and one in four white youngsters -- attends such schools, of which the U.S. has about 2,800.
