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Teachers & School Leaders
How Ohio could pursue curriculum reform
Louisiana gets a ton of education-related attention, most of it focused on the Recovery School District and the proliferation of charter schools in New Orleans. While these reforms are certainly worth a close look, it’s the state’s quieter efforts on curriculum that may be truly changing the game for students and teachers.
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Accountability & Testing
Five ideas for resolving Ohio’s debate over graduation requirements
Malcolm X once said, “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” Wise words. Education has long been the source of opportunity, a passport if you will, for Americans to pursue a better life. But education isn’t a passive activity; it’s earned through hard work, preparation, attainment.
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Differences in special education enrollment in Louisiana's charter and traditional public schools
By Nicholas Munyan-Penney
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NEW STUDY: Is There a Gifted Gap?: Gifted Education in High-Poverty Schools
Schools have long failed to cultivate the innate talents of many of their young people, particularly high-ability girls and boys from disadvantaged and minority backgrounds. This failure harms the economy, widens income gaps, arrests upward mobility, and exacerbates civic decay and political division.
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Curriculum & Instruction, Advanced Education, Teachers & School Leaders
Is There a Gifted Gap? Gifted Education in High-Poverty Schools
Schools have long failed to cultivate the innate talents of many of their young people, particularly high-ability girls and boys from disadvantaged and minority backgrounds. This failure harms the economy, widens income gaps, arrests upward mobility, and exacerbates civic decay and political division.
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Charter Schools
Special School Choice Week edition
On this week's podcast, Mike Magee, CEO of Chiefs for Change, and Nina Rees, CEO and president of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, join Mike Petrilli and Alyssa Schwenk to discuss where the choice movement stands on the occasion of National School Choice Week. During the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines a study on school discipline reform in Philadelphia, complete with a jaw-dropping teacher survey.
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To spark a Catholic school renaissance, we need to put our faith in autonomous school networks
By Kathleen Porter-Magee
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Accountability & Testing
Beware of faulty claims about Ohio’s Quality Counts ranking
Education Week just released its 22nd annual report and rankings of state education systems.
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Curriculum & Instruction
America does not need 3 million curricula
On this week's podcast, Margaret Horn, an executive at CenterPoint Education Solutions, joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss how policymakers and philanthropists can help educators implement high standards. During the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines public preferences for universal and targeted preschool.
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Charter Schools
Seven takeaways from ECOT’s potential closure
After losing its sponsorship, ECOT, the largest e-school in Ohio, appears to be on the brink of closure.
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Charter Schools
When a district steps up, the state should step out of the way
As reported by the Dispatch last week, Columbus City Schools has unveiled plans to expand selective admission among its magnet schools next year. This is a positive step in an often criticized district—an effort that should be applauded and helped to grow.
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