Don't exploit tragedy to make your policy point
When I first heard the news about a Los Angeles elementary teacher killing himself, I cringed. First and foremost I was saddened.
When I first heard the news about a Los Angeles elementary teacher killing himself, I cringed. First and foremost I was saddened.
This week Fordham's newest board member Caprice Young is spending some time in Ohio and her visit could not be timed more perfectly.
National Council on Teacher Quality &n
The teachers union in a suburban Columbus district has pulled out of Race to the Top, putting the district at risk of forfeiting almost a million dollars ($960,000) in RTTT grant funding and many of the reforms that would come with it.
In case you missed it, Fordham's Ohio VP Terry Ryan appeared today on WOSU's All Sides with Ann Fisher.
Students who complain their teacher doesn’t know what he’s talking about may have a point, according to a new study by the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ).
Melissa Lazarín and Feliza Ortiz-LiconCenter for American ProgressSeptember 2010Charter schools that make it their mission to reach the most underserved students must not forget the needs of Latino students and English Language Learners (ELLs). This is topic of the Center for American Progress’s latest report.
For five years, the EdChoice Scholarship Program has enabled students to escape low-performing schools (those rated D or F for two out of the last three years) in Ohio for, presumably, greener pastures in private schools. Fourteen-thousand students, the maximum allowed by state law, in low-performing schools are using this publically funded voucher to attend private schools of their choic
The new rules governing student behavior on weekends and summer breaks may seem like overkill, but try not to
?Those promoting the privatization of American public education are blinded by free-market ideology.'' Diane Ravitch, Research Professor of Education, New York University
Recall David Brooks's New York Times column from May of last year, titled ?The Harlem Miracle,? in which he shouted the virtues of the Harlem Children's Zone. Brooks approvingly quoted the economist Roland Fryer,?who referenced?research he, Fryer, had conducted?about the HCZ:
This is a bit of shameless self-promotion, but what the heck ? it's a teachable moment.
David Brooks weighs in this morning with a succinct explanation for ?how liberalism immobilized itself.?