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3.21.2023

Think Again: Do charter schools drain resources from traditional public schools?

David Griffith

Opponents of public charter schools claim that they drain resources from traditional public schools. This brief argues that this assertion misses lesser-known realities and ignores obvious truths.

3.23.2023

Charter schools make district schools more efficient

David Griffith
3.23.2023

Conservatives’ blunder: Making enemies of public school teachers

Robert Pondiscio
3.23.2023

Yes, high school English can be a bore. No, it’s not Common Core’s fault.

Meredith Coffey, Ph.D.
3.16.2023

We know student effort matters, so let’s start acting like it

Eva Moskowitz
11.22.2022

The case for career and technical education

Amber M. Northern, Ph.D., Jeanette Luna
2.21.2023

It’s time to revisit conventional wisdom in education: Introducing our Think Again Series

The Education Gadfly
2.22.2023

How one school district is balancing excellence and equity—and another isn’t

Brandon L. Wright
2.9.2023

Soft-on-consequences discipline is terrible for teachers

Daniel Buck
3.22.2023

States can improve equity and outcomes in gifted education, but too many aren’t trying

Brandon L. Wright
3.24.2023

How the “math wars” are different from the “reading wars”

Natalie Wexler
3.23.2023

New evidence of weak benefits to student-teacher matching on race

Jeff Murray
3.7.2023

“Because equity” is not a good reason to lower standards

Michael J. Petrilli
3.16.2023

We must return to the core mission of education: academic learning

David Steiner
3.9.2023

To improve student outcomes, ask teachers to do fewer things better

Robert Pondiscio, Jessica Schurz
3.9.2023

“District innovation”: Not an oxymoron?

Jeff Murray
12.6.2022

The case for gifted education

Brandon L. Wright

Ohio

3.24.2023

Ohio Charter News Weekly – 3.24.23

Jeff Murray
3.28.2023

Four ways that Ohio lawmakers can bolster the early literacy push

Shannon Holston, Jessica Poiner, Aaron Churchill
3.23.2023

Some Ohio districts could fill empty seats via open enrollment—but choose not to

Aaron Churchill
3.22.2023

Some Ohio teenagers are struggling after graduation. The governor’s budget proposal could help.

Jessica Poiner
3.15.2023

Moving to “direct certification” will help Ohio better fund low-income students

Aaron Churchill
3.2.2023

Ohio Education By the Numbers—2023 Edition

Aaron Churchill
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