Both the House of Representatives and State Board of Education took a look this month at Ohio's obscure and antiquated mechanisms for financing the education of students who have difficulty speaking and writing English.
Nebraska's governor this month signed into law a bill requiring the state to begin administering statewide, uniform assessments to measure students' academic progress.
State leaders have not taken education reform seriously enough, nor have they moved fast enough to implement change, although one improvement they should definitely consider is modernizing the way students are funded, argues a new briefing paper from The Ohio Grantmakers Forum (
The Ohio Department of Education (ODE) is on the hook for a potential payout of tens of millions of dollars to school districts whose students opted to attend charter schools unless the Ohio Supreme Court rules on behalf of the state.
School principals and administrators take note: the Education Sector's newest report, The Benwood Plan: A Lesson in Comprehensive Teacher Reform, shows readers how drastic improvements can be made with just a little bit of elbow grease and creative school-based reforms.
Like Goldilocks's search for the perfectly sized chair in the classic children's fable, educators have long sought the perfectly sized school.
More paying kids for studying. (Newt Gingrich's idea, according to NPR.)?? Bad idea.
New York Times columnist Bob Herbert tells us that American schools aren't very good: "We've got work to do."
Why does Liam have such a beef with paying poor teenagers to work on their studies rather than flip hamburgers at the local Mickey D's?
Nancy Zuckerbrod at the Associated Press previews today's regulatory actions by the U.S. Department of Education here .
Principal Jana Fields knows that No Child Left Behind looks at school test-score data by subgroup. She knows that the scores of black students are evaluated separately from those of white students, that the scores of Asian students and those??of Hispanic students are gathered in their own, specific cluster.
We at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute fight to improve K-12 schooling in America, but that doesn't mean we're ignoring the environment: httpv://youtube.com/watch?v=loZjzAwHDaQ
As the world awaits the education X PRIZE, the folks at PETA prove that the X PRIZE Foundation isn't the only group that can offer rewards for innovative solutions to pressing problems.
