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2.28.2024

Think Again: Does "equitable" grading benefit students?

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

This policy brief challenges four key ideas that underpin “equity”-motivated trends in grading reforms.

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Doing educational equity right: Grading

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What if Jeb Bush had won?

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Most college graduates face underemployment upon bachelor’s degree attainment

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The hazards of “equity grading”

Meredith Coffey, Ph.D., Adam Tyner, Ph.D.
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Study outlier teachers to solve the homework gap

Mike Goldstein
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ESSER funds are ending. What does this mean for pandemic learning loss?

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2.22.2024

Doing educational equity right: The homework gap

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The research is clear: Charter schools work

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How to build a better public school choice program: Evidence from Los Angeles

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The way we set grade-level norms on tests masks pandemic learning loss

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Getting education (almost) right

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Impact of an early warning system for student absenteeism

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Horace Mann’s solution to political turmoil in education

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Gag order? Or gag reflex?: State laws on teacher speech

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Idaho’s charter school law rewrite: Better, not perfect

Terry Ryan
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High schools where students routinely graduate with college degrees: An interview with Kevin Teasley, CEO of GEO Academies

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2.28.2024

Ohio’s national ranking for K–12 education is better than you might think

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Ohio bolsters its efforts to publicize workforce options for students

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Which Ohio districts are most burdened by oppressive union contracts?

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Ohio lawmakers should give charter schools easier access to unused district facilities

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How state leaders can address chronic absenteeism

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Ohio Charter News Weekly – 3.1.24

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