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Report
12.14.2010
Accountability & Testing

Are Bad Schools Immortal?

David A. Stuit

This study from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute finds that low-performing public schools—both charter and traditional district schools—are stubbornly resistant to significant change. After identifying more than 2,000 low-performing charter and district schools across ten states, analyst David Stuit tracked them from 2003-04 through 2008-09 to determine how many were turned around, shut down, or remained low-performing. Results were generally dismal. Seventy-two percent of the original low-performing charters remained in operation—and remained low-performing-five years later. So did 80 percent of district schools. Read on to learn more.

Report
8.27.2010
Accountability & Testing

2009-10 Ohio Report Card Analysis

Emmy L. Partin, Terry Ryan, Bianca Speranza

Each year the Thomas B. Fordham Institute conducts an analysis of urban school performance in Ohio. We found that in 2009-10, 26 percent of public school students (district and charter) in Ohio's Big 8 urban communities attended a school rated A or B by the state, 28 percent attend a C-rated school, and 47 percent attended a school rated D or F.

Commentary
4.5.2010
Curriculum & Instruction

Blogging "Teach Like a Champion"

Kathleen Porter-Magee

I downloaded Teach Like Champion 49 Techniques That Put Students on the Path to College by Doug Lemov this weekend, and have scarcely been able to put it down.

Commentary
3.24.2010
Curriculum & Instruction

Like the tide, great standards lift all boats

Kathleen Porter-Magee

There's a debate brewing about how much???if at all???great standards contribute to education reform. This week, the Wall Street Journal published an editorial saying that they are not as important to student achievement as universal choice.

Commentary
3.23.2010
Curriculum & Instruction

Common Core education standards get A- and B from Fordham experts

Kathleen Porter-Magee

Anyone who's been following the debate over national standards knows that two weeks ago, the National Governors Association (NGA) together with the Council of Chief State Schools Officers (CCSSO) released the much-anticipated public draft of the K-12 math and English language arts (ELA) Common Core State Standards.[quote]

Commentary
1.20.2010
Curriculum & Instruction

Open source education

Stafford Palmieri

You can find whatever your heart desires on the internet, and that's in part thanks to something called open source. It's a bit of an amorphous term, but that hasn't stopped this Utah virtual charter school from diving in to this potentially revolutionizing movement. Open source is just as its name implies--open.

Commentary
1.13.2010
Curriculum & Instruction

Today's Quotable and Notable

Quotable: "I think it would be a tragedy to talk about Martin Luther King Jr., while not being able to talk about the fact that he had a strong Christian faith. I'm hoping that's not the direction we're headed." - Jonathan Saenz, Lobbyist, Free Market Foundation