Award well deserved
Kudos to Scott Stephens for being recognized by the Education Writers Association for his terrific reporting work in 2009 for Catalyst Ohio!
Kudos to Scott Stephens for being recognized by the Education Writers Association for his terrific reporting work in 2009 for Catalyst Ohio!
For five good reasons, conservatives should take seriously the potential of the newly released (in draft form) “common” education standards to strengthen U.S. education.
Alliance for Excellent EducationBob Wise & Robert RothmanFebruary 2010
Almost since the contest was announced,????those of us working in Ohio have????wondered whether Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's Race to the Top decisions could really be politics-free.
In our last issue, Gadfly erroneously reported that GE Lighting is based in Cincinnati, when any student of Ohio history should know that the Lighting & Electrical Institute is housed at the
Education Next featured TBFI president Chester E. Finn, Jr.
Columbus Collegiate Academy, one of six charter schools authorized by the Thomas B.
Ohio has positioned itself to be among the first states to adopt the “common” academic content standards, created through a state-led process coordinated by the Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Governors Association Center fo
When asked how he would go about improving Pittsburgh, Frank Lloyd Wright offered a simple solution: “Abandon it.” But that Price-is-Right hosting, Michael Moore look-a-like (minus the baseball hat and hammer-and-sickle) Drew Carey won’t drop the commitment to his hometown Cleveland that easily.
National Bureau of Economic ResearchJ. Angrist, S. Dynarski, T. Kane, P. Pathak, & C. WaltersFebruary 2010
The Fordham Institute's expert reviewers have analyzed the draft Common Core K-12 education standards (made public on March 10) according to rigorous criteria. Their analyses lead to a grade of A- for the draft mathematics standards and B for those in English language arts. Read on to find out more.
The Senate version of the health care bill is now law, and as this New York Times blog post explains, a few key provisions go into effect right away.
A sense of resignation has set in as I've gone through the details of state RTT applications. States, including the finalists, are not proposing the bold, game-changing reforms this program deserves. Massachusetts is just the latest finalist with a timid approach and plenty of delayed decisions.
Who said the decline of the mainstream media would be deleterious to healthy, informed debate? (Moreover, who said it was healthy and informed to begin with?)
Anyone who's been following the debate over national standards knows that two weeks ago, the National Governors Association (NGA) together with the Council of Chief State Schools Officers (CCSSO) released the much-anticipated public draft of the K-12 math and English language arts (ELA) Common Core State Standards.[quote]