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Charter Schools
A Shared Responsibility: Ensuring Quality Education in Every Cleveland Neighborhood
Where are quality school seats most needed?
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Charter Schools
Students make academic gains when low-performing schools close
New report findings challenge popular myth that closing schools hurts students academically
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Charter Schools
Gadfly Bites - 4/24/15
Charter law reform efforts get attention at all levels, but it's worth remembering that great charter schools can change lives
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Charter Schools
Gadfly Bites - 4/16/15
Special Edition looking at coverage of Ohio Senate's charter reform bill
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Charter Schools
Charter schools and backfill: The debate we're not having
An internecine argument exposes a fault line in charter school rhetoric. Robert Pondiscio
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Charter Schools
How Do School Leaders Respond to Competition? Evidence From New Orleans
Hint: Think Mad Men. Jeff Murray
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Charter Schools
Why school choice is the highest form of fairness
The impulse to protect kids from bad choices serves no one well. Matthew Levey
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Charter Schools
How Do School Leaders Respond to Competition? Evidence From New Orleans
Short review of new study on the effects of competition on schools
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Charter Schools
The rough balance serves students well
Andy Smarick is clearly disappointed with the
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Curriculum & Instruction, Charter Schools
The promise of mastery grading
Call it mastery or competency-based education, it holds promise for students of all abilities
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Charter Schools
Choice, accountability, and charter performance
If you’re at all interested in school choice, you really should read a trio of recent reports.
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Charter Schools
Time for a new non-district charter authorizer in D.C.
D.C.’s charter school sector stands as a shining example of what urban chartering can accomplish for kids in need.
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Charter Schools
The new school board
Andy delivered a shortened version of the following comments at a PPI launch event for Hill & Jochim’s new book, A Democratic Constitution for Public Education.
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Charter Schools
Accountability in Private School Choice Programs
A good primer on programs in twenty-four locales. Jeff Murray
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Charter Schools
CREDO Urban Charter School Study Report on 41 Regions
Charter schools are making a difference. Robert Pondiscio
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Charter Schools
New systems of schools and common enrollment
I didn’t see common enrollment systems coming.
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Accountability & Testing, Charter Schools
Bless the tests: Three reasons for standardized testing
It takes more than a "gut feeling" to know how a school is doing
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Charter Schools
The limits of equity
Editor’s note: This is the eighth in a series of personal reflections on the current state of education reform and contemporary conservatism by Andy Smarick, a Bernard Lee Schwartz senior policy fellow with the Thomas B. Fordham Institute.
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Charter Schools
The 2014 Education Choice and Competition Index
Rating school choice in the country’s biggest districts. Aaron Churchill
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Charter Schools
The 2014 Education Choice and Competition Index
Taking a look outside the public education monopoly at the educational marketplace
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Charter Schools
The Academic Impact of Inter-district Open Enrollment in Public Schools: The Results from a Decade of Choice
Inter-district open enrollment: the oldest, yet least studied, choice option in Ohio
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Charter Schools
How to end the education reform wars
On Sunday, Mike spoke to the New York State Council of School Superintendents. These were his remarks as prepared for delivery.
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Charter Schools
School choice technocrats wanted
One of the most important developments in urban education over the last two decades has been the rapid expansion of school choice.
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Charter Schools
Turn and Face the Strain: Age Demographic Change and the Near Future of American Education
Coming soon: Fifty states of grey. Jane Song
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Accountability & Testing, Charter Schools
Using equity reports to drive school improvement in D.C.
When we talk about high standards, accountability, and school choice, one essential element is often overlooked: giving parents and education leaders information they can actually use. It’s one thing to produce data, but quite another to make it useful—easily understood, comparable, and actionable.
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Charter Schools
Four ideas for Montgomery County Public Schools
The sudden departure of Joshua Starr, superintendent of Montgomery County Public Schools, caught many by surprise—including Starr.
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Charter Schools
Ed Trust Midwest report on Michigan's charter authorizers: A decent start, but hardly the final word
Followers of Fordham’s work know that we are obsessed with charter school quality, both nationally and in our home state of Ohio. We are also a charter school authorizer, responsible for overseeing a portfolio of eleven schools in the Buckeye State—a job we take very seriously.
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Charter Schools
Kids in Crisis, Cobwebs in Classrooms
Put empty Milwaukee school buildings to use for kids who desperately need them. Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.
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Charter Schools, Accountability & Testing
Comparing Student Attrition Rates at Charter Schools and Nearby Traditional Public Schools
Busting myths, but not much to cheer about