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Commentary
2.12.2018
Accountability & Testing

Ohio could take a cue from Indiana on diplomas

Jessica Poiner

Ohio’s State Board of Education recently voted in favor of recommending that the legislature extend softer graduation requirements to the classes of 2019 and 2020.

Commentary
2.6.2018
Teachers & School Leaders

How Ohio could pursue curriculum reform

Jessica Poiner

Louisiana gets a ton of education-related attention, most of it focused on the Recovery School District and the proliferation of charter schools in New Orleans. While these reforms are certainly worth a close look, it’s the state’s quieter efforts on curriculum that may be truly changing the game for students and teachers.

Commentary
2.2.2018
Accountability & Testing

Five ideas for resolving Ohio’s debate over graduation requirements

Chad L. Aldis

Malcolm X once said, “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” Wise words. Education has long been the source of opportunity, a passport if you will, for Americans to pursue a better life. But education isn’t a passive activity; it’s earned through hard work, preparation, attainment.

Commentary
1.31.2018

NEW STUDY: Is There a Gifted Gap?: Gifted Education in High-Poverty Schools

The Education Gadfly

Schools have long failed to cultivate the innate talents of many of their young people, particularly high-ability girls and boys from disadvantaged and minority backgrounds. This failure harms the economy, widens income gaps, arrests upward mobility, and exacerbates civic decay and political division.

Report
1.31.2018
Curriculum & Instruction, Advanced Education, Teachers & School Leaders

Is There a Gifted Gap? Gifted Education in High-Poverty Schools

Christopher Yaluma, Adam Tyner, Ph.D.

Schools have long failed to cultivate the innate talents of many of their young people, particularly high-ability girls and boys from disadvantaged and minority backgrounds. This failure harms the economy, widens income gaps, arrests upward mobility, and exacerbates civic decay and political division.

Podcast
1.24.2018
Charter Schools

Special School Choice Week edition

On this week's podcast, Mike Magee, CEO of Chiefs for Change, and Nina Rees, CEO and president of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, join Mike Petrilli and Alyssa Schwenk to discuss where the choice movement stands on the occasion of National School Choice Week. During the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines a study on school discipline reform in Philadelphia, complete with a jaw-dropping teacher survey.

Commentary
1.24.2018

Truth decay

Chester E. Finn, Jr.

By Chester E. Finn, Jr.