Negotiate from a position of strength
Mike channels realpolitik to analyze district-charter collaboration.
Mike channels realpolitik to analyze district-charter collaboration.
It is very rare for an education policy book to become a best-seller, much less a national phenomenon.
Meet the newest member of the Fordham team, and the editor of the Choice Words blog.
Guest blogger Adam Emerson explains why education reformers need to learn the value of subsidiarity.
A look back at some of the Fordham Institute’s best blog posts from the past week.
Ten years ago, George W. Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act, the law that has dominated U.S. education—and the education policy debate—for the entire decade. While lawmakers are struggling to update that measure, experts across the political spectrum are struggling to make sense of its impact and legacy. Did NCLB, and the consequential accountability movement it embodied, succeed? And with near-stagnant national test scores of late, is there reason to think that this approach to school reform is exhausted? If not "consequential accountability," what could take the U.S. to the next level of student achievement? Join three leading experts as they wrestle with these questions. Panelists include Hoover Institute economist Eric Hanushek, DFER's Charles Barone, and former NCES commissioner Mark Schneider, author of a forthcoming Fordham analysis of the effects of consequential accountability. NCLB drafter Sandy Kress, previously identified as a panelist, was unable to attend.
Last week, the House GOP presented the latest round of NCLB reauthorization bills. Now it's time for some Congressional deal-making.
Guest blogger Bill Tucker gives his take on Fordham's latest publication, "The Costs of Online Learning."
Today Fordham is releasing the latest installment in its Creating Sound Policy for Digital Learning working paper series, "
The latest installment of Fordham's Creating Sound Policy for Digital Learning series investigates one of the more controversial aspects of digital learning: How much does it cost? In this paper, the Parthenon Group uses interviews with more than fifty vendors and online-schooling experts to estimate today's average per-pupil cost for a variety of schooling models, traditional and online, and presents a nuanced analysis of the important variance in cost between different school designs.
Will the move toward virtual and “blended learning” schools in American education repeat the mistakes of the charter-school movement, or will it learn from them? The Thomas B. Fordham Institute, with the support of the Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation, has commissioned five deep-thought papers that, together, address the thorniest policy issues surrounding digital learning. The goal is to boost the prospects for successful online learning (both substantively and politically) over the long run. In this first of six papers on digital learning commissioned by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, Frederick M. Hess explores the challenges of quality control.
Will the move toward virtual and “blended learning” schools in American education repeat the mistakes of the charter-school movement, or will it learn from them? The Thomas B. Fordham Institute, with the support of the Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation, has commissioned five deep-thought papers that, together, address the thorniest policy issues surrounding digital learning. The goal is to boost the prospects for successful online learning (both substantively and politically) over the long run.
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It’s been a busy day on the revamped Fordham Website. Here’s a rundown of what you may have missed:
It’s time for the federal government to lead from behind
Mike explains Fordham's new approach to blogging and previews all the offerings.
A look back at the year's most-read and most-tweeted content on Flypaper.
Mike looks back at his bold predictions for 2011 and tallies up his score.
Checker lays out a third party platform for disaffected Republicans and Democrats.