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Beware of fake policy solutions
When I was growing up, “fake news” was the black-and-white photograph of the infamous bat child. Staring back at me in the supermarket check-out line, it was easy to spot—the line demarcating fiction from reality was as recognizable as the red and yellow tabloid headlines.
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Charter Schools
Research roundup: Interdistrict Open Enrollment in Ohio
In case you missed it, Fordham released a new report last week: a first-of-its-kind analysis of the districts and the students utilizing open enrollment across district boundaries in the Buckeye State, focusing on which districts did and did not open their borders and on
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State ESSA plans: More than just pretty words?
On this week's podcast, special guest Chris Minnich, Executive Director of the Council of Chief State School Officers, joins Mike Petrilli and Alyssa Schwenk to discuss the seventeen ESSA plans that have been submitted to the U.S. Department of Education, and what the other thirty-four states can learn from them. During the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines Kentucky’s promising approach to school improvement.
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Charter Schools
Keep investing in charter schools that sustain results
NOTES: The Thomas B. Fordham Institute occasionally publishes guest commentaries on its blogs. The views expressed by guest authors do not necessarily reflect those of Fordham.
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Tear down these walls: How suburban districts could help more needy kids
By Aaron Churchill and Chad L. Aldis
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Charter Schools
Foreword: Interdistrict Open Enrollment in Ohio
In April, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos toured the Van Wert school district in rural northwestern Ohio along with American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten. In such sparsely populated communities, private and charter schools are usually scarce.
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Mike Petrilli vs. Liz King on setting utopian goals in education reform
The education reform movement is a big tent, which is particularly true when it comes to the idea of holding schools accountable for results. And, I would argue, the organizations that represent the extreme poles of that tent are the Thomas B. Fordham Institute on the right, and the Leadership Conference for Civil Rights on the left.
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A discussion of where states are headed on ESSA accountability
Featuring Michael J. Petrilli, Linda Darling-Hammond, Liz King, Chris Minnich, and Caitlin Emma
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Charter Schools
Three ways to have a more honest debate about school choice
Posted just six hours after the close of Mother’s Day, this eerily titled article, “Some school districts tail parents to check where family actually lives,” discussed the lengths to which some parents go to enroll their child in a “desirable school
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Standards
House Bill 176: Stealing the playbook won’t lead to results
Back in February, U.S. News and World Report named Massachusetts the top state in its Best States rankings.
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Charter Schools
Charter School Funding: Inequity in the City
Inequity in the City—the work of veteran authors of charter-school funding studies, including Inequity’s Next Frontier, Inequity Persists, and <
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Charter Schools
Join us for an important panel discussion: New research on interdistrict open enrollment
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute is releasing a first-of-its-kind statewide analysis of interdistrict open enrollment. Using anonymous student-level data, Ohio State University professor Stéphane Lavertu and Deven Carlson of the University of Oklahoma examined the background characteristics of open enrollees along with their academic outcomes as gauged by state exams and graduation rates.
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Three ways charters reform and improve our schools
By Chester Finn, Jr., Bruno V. Manno, and Brandon Wright
