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Commentary
10.29.2014
Charter Schools

NEW from Fordham: Redefining the School District in Michigan

The Education Gadfly

What happens when policymakers create statewide school districts to turn around their worst-performing public schools? In Louisiana and Tennessee, Recovery School Districts (RSDs) have made modest-to-strong progress for kids and serve as national models for what the future of education governance might hold.In the Great Lakes State, the story is more complicated.

Commentary
10.28.2014

Late Bell: October 28, 2014

Thomas B. Fordham Institute

HOSTILE TAKEOVERStudents, teachers, and community members in Memphis protested the takeover of local schools by Tennessee’s state-

Commentary
10.27.2014

Late Bell: October 27, 2014

Thomas B. Fordham Institute

THANKS OBAMAMany observers found Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s recent admonishment of testing to be a puzzling change of direction.

Commentary
10.24.2014

Late Bell: October 24, 2014

Thomas B. Fordham Institute

MORE ON INSTITUTIONAL FAILURE AT UNCContinuing their terrific coverage of

Commentary
10.22.2014

The shock of the new

[Editor’s note: This is the sixth in a series of personal reflections on the current state of education reform and contemporary conservatism by Andy Smarick, a Bernard Lee Schwartz senior policy fellow with the Thomas B.

Commentary
10.21.2014

Late Bell: October 21, 2014

Thomas B. Fordham Institute

CUOMO SLOW-WALKING COMMON CORENew York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s reelection campaign has been tough on his Republican opponent, and now it&

Commentary
10.20.2014

Late Bell: October 20, 2014

Thomas B. Fordham Institute

EDUCATION SNAPSHOTFederally owned schools located on Native American reservations, which serve about 48,000 students nationally, face extreme poverty and lack of resources; they are also marked by low performance scor

Commentary
10.17.2014
Accountability & Testing

Ten things to know about the CCSSO-CGCS testing plan

On Wednesday, CCSSO (the organization of state superintendents) joined with CGCS (the organization of big urban school districts) to announce joint plans to reassess and scale back testing programs.

Commentary
10.16.2014

Late Bell: October 16, 2014

Thomas B. Fordham Institute

SCHEDULING AROUND THE "SUMMER SLIP"It is now generally recognized 

Commentary
10.15.2014

BRIEFLY NOTED: Landlords that moonlight as EMOs...and more

The Education Gadfly

The Columbus Dispatch recently reported that Imagine Schools, a large charter-management company, has a number of schools in the Columbus area that are spending what appear to be excessive amounts of their st

Commentary
10.15.2014

NEW from Fordham: Metro D.C. School Spending Explorer

The Education Gadfly

The Thomas B. Fordham Institute set out to answer a basic (yet complicated) question: how much does each school in the D.C. metro area spend for each student it enrolls? In the Metro D.C. School Spending Explorer, we found that there are differences in spending within the same district.

Report
10.15.2014
School Finance

Metro D.C. School Spending Explorer

The Thomas B. Fordham Institute set out to answer a basic (yet complicated) question: how much does each school in the D.C. metro area spend on day-to-day operations for each student it enrolls? In the Metro D.C.