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ESSA
Ohio shouldn’t worry about Delaware’s ESSA plan woes—yet
Early last week, the Trump administration gave three states feedback on their submitted plans for the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).
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Charter Schools
Interdistrict Open Enrollment in Ohio: A recap of Fordham’s latest event
In the wake of Donald Trump’s election and his selection of Betsy DeVos as Education Secretary, a lot of attention has been focused on school choice.
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Charter Schools
Dad gets some new insights into the importance of school choice
The best advice my wife and I received on how to manage daily life with newly born twin daughters was from our pediatrician: get them on a schedule. Any schedule that works for you is fine, but it should be the same schedule for both children, and stick to it. It was a great insight from a pro and it has served us well.
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Can We Bridge the Research-to-Policy Divide?
The quality of education research has greatly improved since the Institute for Education Sciences was launched almost fifteen years ago. Its research studies and evaluations are having an impact on the national policy debate—such as the reaction we’ve seen to IES’s recent analysis of the D.C.
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Can We Bridge the Research-to-Policy Divide?
The quality of education research has greatly improved since the Institute for Education Sciences was launched almost fifteen years ago. Its research studies and evaluations are having an impact on the national policy debate—such as the reaction we’ve seen to IES’s recent analysis of the D.C.
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Accountability & Testing
Beware of fake policy solutions
When I was growing up, “fake news” was the black-and-white photograph of the infamous bat child. Staring back at me in the supermarket check-out line, it was easy to spot—the line demarcating fiction from reality was as recognizable as the red and yellow tabloid headlines.
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Charter Schools
Research roundup: Interdistrict Open Enrollment in Ohio
In case you missed it, Fordham released a new report last week: a first-of-its-kind analysis of the districts and the students utilizing open enrollment across district boundaries in the Buckeye State, focusing on which districts did and did not open their borders and on
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ESSA
State ESSA plans: More than just pretty words?
On this week's podcast, special guest Chris Minnich, Executive Director of the Council of Chief State School Officers, joins Mike Petrilli and Alyssa Schwenk to discuss the seventeen ESSA plans that have been submitted to the U.S. Department of Education, and what the other thirty-four states can learn from them. During the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines Kentucky’s promising approach to school improvement.
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Charter Schools
Keep investing in charter schools that sustain results
NOTES: The Thomas B. Fordham Institute occasionally publishes guest commentaries on its blogs. The views expressed by guest authors do not necessarily reflect those of Fordham.
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Tear down these walls: How suburban districts could help more needy kids
By Aaron Churchill and Chad L. Aldis
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Charter Schools
Foreword: Interdistrict Open Enrollment in Ohio
In April, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos toured the Van Wert school district in rural northwestern Ohio along with American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten. In such sparsely populated communities, private and charter schools are usually scarce.
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What Betsy DeVos should say about vouchers, LGBT rights, and religious liberty
By Michael J. Petrilli
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Mike Petrilli vs. Liz King on setting utopian goals in education reform
The education reform movement is a big tent, which is particularly true when it comes to the idea of holding schools accountable for results. And, I would argue, the organizations that represent the extreme poles of that tent are the Thomas B. Fordham Institute on the right, and the Leadership Conference for Civil Rights on the left.
