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The Proper Perspective: Ohio school report cards and the opt-out problem
The fourth installment of our occasional series presenting differing views on an education issue
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Educational equity: Mission accomplished or merely begun?
Education Cities and Great Schools recently released a useful new educational data tool called the Education Equality Index (EEI), which allows users to compare cities and states across the nation that are “closing the achievement gap.” The tool compiles school-level low-income student achievement data (2011–2014), comp
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Teacher resources: When one door closes, another one opens
An opportunity for high-quality, homegrown teaching materials
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Charter Schools
John Kasich's education record: Much better than what you've read
By Jamie Davies O’Leary
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Advanced Education
Challenges to the pursuit of equity in excellence
A recent report showing low levels of participation by black, Hispanic, and low-income students in the gifted and talented programs of Montgomery County underscores the significant challenges befo
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The Education Equality Index: Reasons for frustration and hope
Schools are supposed to be the great equalizers. Yet it is far too difficult to tell which cities or states do the most to ensure that all children receive equitable access to strong public schools.
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Education for Upward Mobility: The Reform Conservative's Education Agenda
There’s little doubt that education and opportunity are tightly joined in the twenty-first-century economy. Almost every week brings a new study demonstrating that highly skilled workers are being rewarded with stronger pay and excellent workingconditions, while Americans with few skills are struggling mightily.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Building a better (community) college student through remediation
By Jeff Murray
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Teacher Evaluation Reforms and the Distribution of Teacher Effectiveness
By Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.
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Curriculum & Instruction, Advanced Education
High-potential students thrive when school districts develop sustainable gifted services
The goal of gifted programs should reflect that of any other educational program: to engage students with appropriately challenging curricula and instruction on a daily basis and in all relevant content areas so that they can make continual academic growth.
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Education for Upward Mobility
In Education for Upward Mobility, editor Michael J. Petrilli and more than a dozen leading scholars and policy analysts seek answers to a fundamental question: How can we help children born into poverty transcend their disadvantages and enter the middle class as adults? And in particular, what role can our schools play?
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How do Ohio’s urban high schoolers perform? Part one: Graduation rates and ACT scores
First in a deep-dive series looking at urban high schools across the Buckeye State
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Advanced Education
One size may fit most, but certainly not the gifted and talented
Last fall, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) published a working paper by researchers Thomas S. Dee and Hans Henrik Sieversten titled The Gift of Time? School Starting Age and Mental Health. The well-developed study quantifies the effects of predicating enrollment in formal schooling on the mental health of students.
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Charter Schools
Laying the foundation for the next decade of D.C. reform
Here’s the speech I wish Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser would give:
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Undefined
The Coates-Miranda edition
In this week’s podcast, Robert Pondiscio and Alyssa Schwenk contrast the views of two MacArthur “geniuses,” weigh the role of “life experiences” in the college admissions process, and question reform critics’ push to block John King’s confirmation as education secretary. In the Research Minute, Amber Northern explains how DCPS gathers various data on teacher hiring but doesn't make the best use of them.
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Education reform's women—and the credit and opportunities they deserve
When the history of this era’s urban-education reform movement is written, four big policy innovations are sure to get attention: the nation’s first voucher program, first charter law, first mayor-controlled charter authorizer, and first “