Needle in a Haystack: McGregor Elementary
As we've mentioned before, McGregor Elementary in Canton stands out for consistently delivering academic results despite serving an area that's been particularly hard hit by Ohio's industrial decline.
As we've mentioned before, McGregor Elementary in Canton stands out for consistently delivering academic results despite serving an area that's been particularly hard hit by Ohio's industrial decline.
?I can't tell you how much I wish Race to the Top would have created a firestorm. The reality is, it didn't.? ? Jeanne Allen, President and Founder, Center for Education Reform
One of the best things about my job is that I get to spend time with real teachers and real students learning about their challenges, their opportunities, their worries, and their good work. Last night I was asked to be a judge for the second annual Richard Allen Schools' student debate in Dayton.
Should Ohioans worry that recent cuts to early childhood education might widen the preschool access gap between Ohio and other states? Yes, according to a new report by the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) at Rutgers University. But state leaders can remedy this problem by enacting smart changes to early learning programs in the next budget.
As most of you know, Fordham has been a charter school sponsor (aka, ???authorizer???) in Ohio since 2005. Along the way we've learned a lot about the importance of charter sponsors holding schools accountable for results, and about how the a sponsor's size and economy of scale (or lack thereof) factors into this.
The State Board of Education is slated to adopt new academic content standards in science at its June meeting. Lynn Elfner, executive director of the Ohio Academy of Science, and Stan W.
The D.C. Public Schools and the Washington Teachers Union just reached an agreement on a new teacher contract. Reformers are calling it the boldest of its kind.
Word has it (here, too) Cleveland will be among the cities in which the new Common Core national standards will be piloted. The timeline is
My post yesterday, arguing that we have too many veteran teachers who cost too much and add too little value, stirred up quite a bit of controversy, both here on Flypaper and over at
I opined last week on the fate of the British education system in light of Thursday's confusing election results.
Heard about the new movie The Cartel? It's the story of the mafia-esque education establishment in New Jersey and it's quite a whopper. It came out last summer when it played at a number of independent film festival screenings in the Garden State?and at which point Gadfly caught wind of it.
As a few smart guys predicted fifteen months ago, the budget crisis is putting serious pressure on teacher se
We might not have a K-12 master plan, but that doesn't mean we can't still learn a lot from the military ?
?This is an incredibly special moment in American history, where you have Republicans in New Jersey agreeing with a Democratic president on how to get reform.? ? New Jersey Governor Chris Christie
We've been ruminating about education reform in the motherland recently, especially the ideas of the resurgent Tories and their plan for state-funded ?independent? schools. But as of this morning, the situation in Britain remains unclear.
?If we're going to go to national standards, which I'm very supportive of, I'd rather be at the table deciding what they're going to be than be on the sidelines having them done to us.? ?Winston Brooks, Albuquerque Public Schools Superintendent
The Department has released the list of states intending to apply in round 2 of RTT.
Reform legislation is on its way to the governors desk in CT. It wouldn't have happened with the outstanding reform organization ConnCan.
Charles Murray's New York Times op-ed on the merits and limitations of charter schooling coincided quite well with Fordham's event yesterday on the very same topic.
Sandra Stotsky, Christian Goering, David JolliffeUniversity of ArkansasSpring 2010
Heather Schwartz, Columbia UniversityFord Foundation Project on Choice District GovernanceJanuary 2010
David T. ConleyJossey-Bass2010
Not long ago, I laid hold of this space to voice my concern that private foundations are getting entirely too palsy-walsy with Uncle Sam—and that he’s doing his ardent utmost to draw them into an intimate embrace.
The New York Times is making a habit of putting charter schools on the front page.
It wasn’t so long ago that reformers were regularly out-hustled by the education establishment. While we were mostly putting out white papers and writing op-eds, they were making campaign donations and marching on statehouses. Unfortunately, our compelling ideas were no match for their raw political power.
The issue of parental involvement is vexing for education reformers. Everybody knows that it matters, but nobody really knows how to encourage it. In a free society, how do schools, or governments, make sure that parents provide the love, attention, discipline, nurturing, and care that their kids need to succeed? The short answer is: they can't.
JPMorgan Chase announced yesterday that it is providing $325 million to support charter schools. It appears that the funding will be sent through local partners that help charters access facilities.