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9.14.2023

A bridge back to bipartisan education reform

Michael J. Petrilli

The Building Bridges Initiative has released an important new Call to Action, "A Generation at Risk." The Initiative is a partnership of Democrats for Education Reform and the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. We launched it eighteen months ago with the hope of bringing reformers together across left, right, and center. Our top goal was essential if modest: to rebuild relationships that had been frayed by the polarization of recent years. Our second was come to an agreement on a new reform agenda. We accomplished both.

9.18.2023

Excellence gaps: New resources and a personal history

Jonathan Plucker
9.21.2023

Public charter schools and the Chipotlification of education

Christy Wolfe
9.21.2023

In the wake of the pandemic, time is of the essence for high school students

Victoria McDougald
9.14.2023

Back to the future: Houston takes a page from ed reform’s recent past

Dale Chu
9.12.2023

Why serve on the National Assessment Governing Board?

Chester E. Finn, Jr.
9.7.2023

America’s recent education declines in international context

Michael J. Petrilli
8.31.2023

Texas’s controversial takeover of Houston’s schools

Daniel Buck
8.24.2023

The hill that public education dies on: Transgender policies’ utter contempt for parents

Robert Pondiscio
9.7.2023

Chronic absenteeism has become a crisis, part 1: Possible causes

Tim Daly
9.12.2023

Chronic absenteeism has become a crisis, part 2: Cities and suburbs

Tim Daly
9.21.2023

Chronic absenteeism has become a crisis, part 3: Solutions

Tim Daly
9.14.2023

Create a more flexible work week for teachers

Meredith Coffey, Ph.D.
9.14.2023

Test-based retention, student achievement, and sibling spillover effects

Jeff Murray
9.7.2023

Grade inflation is not a victimless crime

Frederick M. Hess
9.5.2023

Are college completion grants a no-incentive incentive?

Jeff Murray
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8.31.2023

The essential state role in educating advanced learners

Chester E. Finn, Jr.

Ohio

9.25.2023

Chronic absenteeism is making academic recovery harder in Ohio

Aaron Churchill
9.19.2023

As chronic absenteeism rates soar, some Ohio lawmakers want to make it easier for kids to skip school

Jessica Poiner
9.18.2023

Ohio’s long and winding road back to where it started with novice teachers

Jessica Poiner
9.13.2023

Ohio Senate proposes much-needed tweaks to College Credit Plus

Jessica Poiner
9.12.2023

Why Ohio’s school board elections should be on-cycle

Aaron Churchill
9.22.2023

Ohio Charter News Weekly – 9.22.23

Jeff Murray
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August 2023

Excellence Gaps by Race and Socioeconomic Status

Meredith Coffey, Ph.D., Adam Tyner, Ph.D.

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#888: Building bridges in education reform, with Frances Messano

09.20.2023

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