Policy & Guidance: Overview of American Economic Recovery Act: Spending your education stimulus dollars quickly and appropriately
United States Department of EducationApril 1, 2009
Reading Last: Results of a two-year one-part-of-six study of reading underachievement
Weera Flotindough et al.Apt AssociatesNovember 2008
WWOD? Now we know.
Liam Julian"The Wall Street Journal's Bill McGurn (and lots of others) wonders: What will Obama do on school choice? Now we know...." Read it here.
Conditional Cash Transfers and School Dropout Rates
Lorraine Dearden, Carl Emmerson, Christine Frayne, and Costas MeghirJournal of Human ResourcesFall 2009
The Best Charter Study Ever in The History of All Charter Studies Ever Done Up To This Point
Macke RaymondCREDOApril 2010
Cleveland Vouchers Still Inconclusive in Year 83
Moses Brown and Aaron Green, Indiana University Graduate School of EducationDecember 2079
How State Charter Laws Rank Against The New Model Public Charter School Law
National Alliance for Public Charter SchoolsJanuary 2010
Breaking Ranks in the Middle: Strategies for Leading Middle School Reform
National Association of Secondary School Principals2006
The Nation's Report Card Grade 12: Reading and Mathematics 2009
National Center for Education Statistics, The Nation's Report Card Grade 12: Reading and Mathematics 2009 (Washington, D.C.: Institute of Education Sciences, November 2010).
The Effects of Competition on Educational Outcomes: A Review of U.S. Evidence
National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, September 2001
Transforming American Education: Learning Powered by Technology: National Education Technology Plan 2010
Office of Educational Technology, Transforming American Education: Learning Powered by Technology: National Education Technology Plan 2010 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education, 2010).
Learning and Understanding: Improving Advanced Study of Mathematics and Science in U.S. High Schools
Jerry P. Gollub, et al.National Academy of Science, Committee on Programs for Advanced Study of Mathematics and Science in American High SchoolsFebruary 2002
Teacher Quality in Educational Production: Tracking, Decay, and Student Achievement
Jesse RothsteinPrinceton University and National Bureau of Economic ResearchFebruary 2010 (anticipated)
Standards and Spending: Dispelling the Spending Orthodoxy
John Marks, Centre for Policy StudiesJanuary 2002
K12 Inc. CEO Ron Packard responds to NYTimes' criticism
The head of the nation's largest online learning company defends his organization's record.
Closing the achievement gap, but at gifted students' expense
Michael J. PetrilliMike Petrilli and AEI's Rick Hess examine the consequences of the America's focus on achievement gaps in a Washington Post Op-Ed.
The Accountability Plateau
Tyson EberhardtFordham's latest publication examines NAEP scores from Texas and nationwide.
The good, the bad, the ugly: school turnarounds and profiteers
Guest blogger Van Schoales offers a critical assessment of how SIG dollars are being spent in Colorado.
The accountability plateau
Chester E. Finn, Jr., Michael J. PetrilliBy Chester E. Finn, Jr. and Michael J. Petrilli
In praise of performance pay--for online learning companies
Michael J. PetrilliMaybe it's online schools, rather than teachers, that would benefit most from performance pay.
Rethinking Education Governance for the Twenty-First Century
School reforms abound today, yet even the boldest and most imaginative among them have produced—at best—marginal gains in student achievement. What America needs in the twenty-first century is a far more profound version of education reform. Instead of shoveling yet more policies, programs, and practices into our current system, we must deepen our understanding of the obstacles to reform that are posed by existing structures, governance arrangements, and power relationships. Yet few education reformers—or public officials—have been willing to delve into this touchy territory.
Education Reform Idol: The Reformiest State 2011
Leaders from five cutting-edge states battled for the honor of "Reformiest State 2011." This Fordham Institute panel pitted Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Wisconsin against one another. The winner, Indiana, was determined by a vote of the in-person and online audience.
When Reform Touches Teachers
There has been much heated debate this year over bold changes that affect teachers, including dialing back pensions and union rights. These matters were candidly discussed by two high-visibility national education leaders who don't always agree: Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers and Frederick M. Hess, director of Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Which issues do we actually disagree about? Can we do so in ways that illumine rather than obscure? Our two panelists will prove that it's possible. Watch this lively conversation, moderated by Fordham's ever-lively Michael Petrilli.
Checker Finn on patriotism, democracy, and teaching about 9/11
On the ten-year anniversary of the 9/11, teachers are looking for advice on how to teach about the attacks. Unfortunately, much of the curricular content available focuses on the wrong things. Checker Finn discusses what teachers should be teaching based on Fordham's new report, Teaching about 9/11 in 2011: What Children Need to Know.
Working Smarter Together
Presented by the Nord Family Foundation, Ohio Grantmakers Forum, and Thomas B. Fordham Institute, with the ESC of Central Ohio and Public Performance Partners, this is a free, non-partisan event to help local government administrators -- from county commissioners and city managers to school district superintendents -- think differently about how they operate, and learn tangible strategies for sharing services and saving money.
The Other Achievement Gap
A trio of recent studies and articles raises troubling questions about America's "Achievement-Gap Mania." Are we leaving our highest performing students behind in the quest to raise the test scores of students at the bottom? If so, what will this mean for our future international competitiveness? Learn about the recent studies--Fordham's Do High Flyers Maintain their Altitude? and the George W. Bush Institute's Global Report Card?as well as Frederick M. Hess's new National Affairs essay, "Our Achievement-Gap Mania." And join a conversation about whether our focus on raising the bottom is blinding us to trouble at the top. View the event page for more details.