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Report
11.19.2008
Accountability & Testing, Charter Schools

Climbing to Quality 2007-2008 Fordham Sponsorship Accountability Report

Kathryn Mullen

This yearly report covers Fordham's sponsorship practices throughout the year as well as newsworthy events related to our sponsored charter schools. You can also find detailed reports on all of Fordham-sponsored schools. Each school report contains information on the school's academic performance, educational philosophy, and compliance for the 2007-2008 school year.

Report
8.25.2008
Accountability & Testing

Education Olympics 2008: The Games in Review

Stafford Palmieri, Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.

This report has a simple aim: to present results from international assessments so readers can judge for themselves how American students stack up globally. It shows how the U.S. has performed internationally in education in recent years, and it provides a glimpse of how education looks in several top-performing nations.

Report
6.18.2008
Advanced Education

High-Achieving Students in the Era of No Child Left Behind

Steve Farkas, Ann Duffett, Tom Loveless

This publication reports the results of the first two (of five) studies of a multifaceted research investigation of the state of high-achieving students in the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) era. Part I examines achievement trends for high-achieving students since the early 1990s; Part II reports on teachers' own views of how schools are serving high-achieving pupils in the NCLB era.

Report
3.12.2008
School Finance

Fund The Child: Bringing Equity, Autonomy, and Portability to Ohio School Finance

Ohio can boast of praiseworthy gains over the past decade in making school funding more equitable across districts, but there is more work to be done. To mitigate the school-finance inequities that remain within districts and gear school funding toward the realities of student mobility, school choice and effective school-based management, this report recommends that Ohio embrace Weighted Student Funding (WSF), which allocates resources based on the needs of individual students and by sending dollars directly to schools rather than lodging most spending decisions at the district level.