A response to Gary Rubinstein

The following is a response to Gary Rubinstein’s post, “Open Letters To ‘B-List’ Reformers I Know. Part 3: Michael Petrilli”Dear Gary,

Netflix Academy: The best streaming videos on the Lewis and Clark Expedition

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Implementing the Common Core with Struggling Readers

While political fireworks are grabbing most of the Common Core headlines these days, the real story is how teachers and leaders—particularly those within the reform community—are changing their daily practice in light of the content and rigor demands of the CCSS.

The new AP US History test guide: Standards-lite, thematic guide, or not quite either?

In creating a new Course and Exam Description for the revamped Advanced Placement US History test (coming in the 2014–15 academic year), the College Board’s writers faced a notable challenge.

School Choice in 2014: The year in review (so far)

As most states’ legislative sessions wind down for the year, it’s not too early to ask how school choice has been faring, particularly when compared with the remarkable gains around the country during the past several years. Here’s a rundown, in case you haven’t been paying attention:

Prestigious visitors learning lessons from outstanding charter schools in Columbus

United Schools Network welcomes fellows from Building Excellent Schools to observe and learn from their success.

Prestigious visitors learning lessons from outstanding charter schools in Columbus

United Schools Network welcomes fellows from Building Excellent Schools to observe and learn from their success.

The State of Charter School Authorizers 2013

Every year, the National Association of Charter School Authorizers draws on survey data from half of the nation’s charter-school authorizers to assess the quality of their practices, outlining a set of twelve essential practices and scoring authorizers based on their adherence to them. In this sixth edition, the results are mixed.

A fifty-state strategy for course choice

Individual district schools don’t serve all students, either

Last week was National Charter School Week and, to celebrate, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the “Success and Opportunity through Quality Charter Schools Act.” This was an exciting occasion for us Washington-based policy wonks, starved as we are for any legislative action on education.

NEW from Fordham: Expanding the Education Universe: A Fifty-State Strategy for Course Choice

In defense of the anti–Common Core Right

It’s true that many conservatives (and liberals, too!) have employed pretty outlandish rhetoric in their effort to discredit the Common Core. It’s also true that many of the things these opponents say are either factually untrue or unrelated to the standards themselves.

Setting a course toward charter quality

Now is the time for a renewed commitment to charter school quality in Ohio.

Setting a course toward charter quality

Now is the time for a renewed commitment to charter school quality in Ohio.

National Charter Schools Week: A time to celebrate good charter schools

A look back at a week of charter school profiles.

The DOJ and Wisconsin’s private-school choice program: a storm is brewing

Last week, the Wisconsin Reporter reported that the United States Department of Justice is still conducting an “ongoing investigation” into whether Wisconsin’s private-school choice program d

Celebrating National Charter Schools Week: Columbus Collegiate Academy and the United Schools Network are EPIC performers in Ohio’s capital

Our final National Charter Schools Week school feature is a bit overdue, but introduce you to one of the brightest lights in the Fordham portfolio.

Netflix Academy: The best streaming videos on earthquakes and volcanoes

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Now you’re entitled to your own facts, too

Something unsavory is underway at the Department of Education and in the world of pre-school zealotry.They seem to be merging—and in so doing they risk the integrity of our education-data system.

Almost, Peggy, But This Time Not Quite

For no current-affairs commentator do I have greater respect than Peggy Noonan, whose sagacity, common sense, plain-spokenness, and “big picture” view of things are as welcome—and rare—as the clarity and persuasiveness of her prose.

The mystery that is twelfth-grade NAEP

One of the great unanswered questions in American education policy is why the major gains we’ve seen on the Nation’s Report Card in the fourth and eighth grades evaporate once students reach the twelfth grade.

Reactions pour in to At the Helm, Not the Oar

Celebrating National Charter Schools Week: DECA Prep is a high-quality learning lab

The resilience of Common Core

I keep up on Common Core news religiously. In the last few weeks, I’ve amassed a stack of 30 articles and reports, trying to come up with a clever, cogent argument for what they mean when considered together.

Celebrating National Charter Schools Week: Village Preparatory School :: Woodland Hills Campus adds a new school leader

Village Preparatory School: Woodland Hills Campus (VPWH) is located in the Kinsman-Woodland Hills area of Cleveland and serves about 300 students in grades K–3. VPWH is a part of the incredibly successful Breakthrough Schools network.

Teachers, race, and effectiveness

Among the many problems facing American K–12 education, we don’t have enough highly effective, minority, or male teachers.

Celebrating National Charter Schools Week: KIPP Columbus boosting the academic success of needy kids

Columbus is the proud home to the Buckeye State’s lone KIPP charter school.

Celebrating National Charter Schools Week: Growth is in the works at Phoenix Community Learning Center

Phoenix Community Learning Center is in the midst of a structural renaissance. The school, Fordham’s only sponsored school in Cincinnati, has plans to expand their current school building, which would eventually add three classrooms and a media center.