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Report
8.26.2015
Governance

Schools of Thought: A Taxonomy of American Education Governance

Dara Zeehandelaar Shaw, Ph.D., David Griffith

Questions of education governance are often considered moot by policymakers, who typically assume that the governance challenges plaguing their local schools are both universal and inevitable. Given the ubiquity of everything from local school boards to state superintendents, this seems to be a logical assumption.

Report
8.6.2015
School Finance, Governance

Who Should Be in Charge When School Districts Go into the Red?

Dara Zeehandelaar Shaw, Ph.D., Victoria McDougald, Alyssa Schwenk

School districts across the land are contending with rising education costs and constrained revenues. Yet state policies for assisting school districts in financial trouble are uneven and complex. Interventions are often haphazard, occur arbitrarily, and routinely place politics over sound economics.

Report
7.15.2015
Charter Schools, Governance

Pre-K and Charter Schools: Where State Policies Create Barriers to Collaboration

Sara Mead, Ashley LiBetti Mitchel

In Pre-K and Charter Schools: Where State Policies Create Barriers to Collaboration, authors Sara Mead and Ashley LiBetti Mitchel examine thirty-six jurisdictions that have both charter schools and state-funded pre-K programs to determine where charters can provide state-funded pre-K.

Commentary
7.7.2015
ESSA

To my friends on the Left and Right: Please stop polarizing the ESEA debate

Michael J. Petrilli

It’s finally here: Our best chance to update the Elementary and Secondary Education Act since its passage shortly after 9/11.  A whole generation of students has come and gone, yet our nation’s key education law remains the same. There’s absolutely no good reason to delay reauthorization any longer. To the contrary; it’s sorely overdue.

Report
6.10.2015
Governance

Redefining the School District in America

Nelson Smith

In Redefining the School District in America, Nelson Smith reexamines existing recovery school districts (RSDs)—entities in Louisiana, Tennessee, and Michigan charged with running and turning around their state’s worst schools—and assembles the most comprehensive catalog of similar initiatives underway and under consideration elsewhere.

Commentary
5.6.2015
Accountability & Testing

Trust, but verify

Robert Pondiscio

The era of judging New York City Schools on academics is over. Robert Pondiscio

Commentary
4.21.2015
Accountability & Testing

A test of education reform

The testing “opt-out” movement is testing education reform’s humility.

Commentary
3.25.2015
Accountability & Testing

Opting out, race, and reform

Robert Pondiscio

Arne Duncan was half right about those “white suburban moms.” Robert Pondiscio

Report
3.17.2015
Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Developing School Leaders: What the U.S. Can Learn from England's Model

Mark Toner

The myriad challenges facing school principals in the United States have been well documented, including limited opportunities for distributed leadership, inadequate training, and a lackluster pipeline for new leaders. Recently, the Fordham Institute teamed up with the London-based Education Foundation to seek a better understanding of England’s recent efforts to revamp school leadership.

Commentary
3.2.2015
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.

Commentary
2.26.2015
Accountability & Testing

The state-led ESEA compromise

A few weeks ago, I used a graphic to show the four dimensions of federal accountability, each of which has a range of options. I then used this graphic to show the consensus for preserving NCLB testing.

Commentary
2.18.2015
Accountability & Testing

ESEA testing proposals in one picture

A couple weeks ago, I created a graphic to help explain the contours of the debate about federal accountability in the ESEA reauthorization process.

Commentary
2.9.2015
Accountability & Testing

Time for a checkup?

Ohio Education Gadfly

Tests are important

Commentary
2.5.2015
Accountability & Testing

NCLB accountability is dead; long live ESEA testing

Chester E. Finn, Jr.

It’s fascinating—and telling—how rapidly the zillion issues tucked away in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act have been distilled down to arguments about testing.

Commentary
1.21.2015
Accountability & Testing

Stump speech contest: What members of Congress should say about testing

Michael J. Petrilli

The word around town is that support for annual testing among rank-and-file members of Congress—in both chambers and on both sides of the aisle—is dangerously low. They are constantly hearing complaints from their constituents about the overuse and abuse of standardized tests, and many are eager to do something about it.