Gifted education standards to guide teaching and deepen student learning
Ensuring that highly able learners are recognized through systematic programming is of the highest importance.
Ensuring that highly able learners are recognized through systematic programming is of the highest importance.
At the National Charter Schools Conference last month, Secretary of Education John King challenged U.S.
One of my greatest failures in my first year as a teacher was my inadequate communication with parents. Upon reflection, I can see that that this failure arose from many sources. Most obviously, I lacked experience and the kind of relationships that come from spending years working in the same community.
Editor's note: This is the seventh entry in our forum on charter school discipline practices.
The mental image most people have of career and technical education is taken directly from a mid-century General Motors training video: Enthusiastic young men in denim replacing serpentine belts and laboring over alternators. Failing that, the scenario might take place in a wood shop or a welding station.
By Jamie Davies O’Leary
By Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.
The San Francisco 49ers are taking science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education to new heights for children throughout Silicon Valley.
Editor's note: This is the sixth entry in our forum on charter school discipline practices.
Editor's note: This is the fifth entry in our forum on charter school discipline practices.
In a previous blog post, we urged Ohio’s newly formed Dropout Prevention and Recovery Study Committee to carefully review the state’s alternative accountability system for dropout-recovery charter schools.
The purpose of my last post was to suggest that those frustrated with school “accountability” should consider the structural elements that gave rise to our present accountability systems.
Editor's note: This is the fourth entry in our forum on charter school discipline practices.
Editor's note: This is the third entry in our forum on charter school discipline practices. Earlier posts can be found here and here.
Eighteen months ago, Ohio proved it was finally serious about cleaning up its charter sector, with Governor Kasich and the Ohio General Assembly placing sponsors (a.k.a. authorizers) at the center of a massive charter law overhaul.
In case you missed it, Fordham Ohio released a new report yesterday—Evaluation of Ohio’s EdChoice Scholarship Program—a first-of-its kind rigorous examination of the state’s largest voucher program. Say what you will about the frankly disappointing findings but never say that Fordham is afraid to go where the data lead.
No Child Left Behind (NCLB) required states to identify and intervene in persistently low-performing schools.
Editor's note: This is the second entry in our forum on charter school discipline practices. The first post post is here.
Over the last few months, my work on ESSA implementation and my thinking about new systems of urban schools have come together. I have a new hypothesis. And I think it has some interesting implications.
By Elliot Regenstein
Shortly after Ohio lawmakers enacted a new voucher program in 2005, the state budget office wrote in its fiscal analysis, “The Educational Choice Scholarships are not only intended to offer another route for student success, but also to impel the administration and teaching staff of a failing school building to improve upon their students’ academic performance.” As economist M
By Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.
By Robert Pondiscio
Darius Brown’s educational biography,
By Robert Pondiscio