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It's right here. Kevin Carey nails the post-NCLB school reform ethos. ?Mike Petrilli
It's right here. Kevin Carey nails the post-NCLB school reform ethos. ?Mike Petrilli
?It's honor inflation? I think it's a bad idea if you're No. 26 and you're valedictorian. In the real world, you do get ranked.? -Chris Healy, Furman University Associate Professor?
Almost a decade ago, Fordham and the Progressive Policy Institute published a phone book-sized treatise, Rethinking Special Education for a New Century. One of its most important chapters was ?Rethinking Learning Disabilities,?
Thanks to Netflix CEO and education reformer Reed Hastings, I've got a number of complete seasons of Beavis and Butthead (along with many other shows and movies) at my fingertips, on demand, in good TV quality, all for less than $9 a month. Streaming Netflix is really a marvelous invention.
Amber, Fordham's research director, discussed our report ?Charter School Autonomy: A Half-Broken Promise? during a recent episode of the Family Policy Matters radio show, which is based in North Carolina.
As the world cup heats up opportunities for Sports fans to receive MBA's are increasing.
?We think it would be wrong to lay off teachers who are performing for students when we know there are teachers who are not? Ron Huberman, CEO of Chicago Public Schools
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.Christina Clark Tuttle, Bing-ru Teh, Ira Nichols-Barrer, Brian P. Gill, & Philip GleasonJune 2010
Kathleen CushmanJossey-Bass Publishing2010
Clara Hemphill and Kim NauerCenter for New York City Affairs, The New SchoolJune 2010
Emily Cohen, Aileen Corso, Valerie Franck and Kate KeilherNational Council on Teacher QualityJune 2010
Richard Whitmire has been worried about the fate of boys in the classroom for some time now. He points primarily to lackluster overall high school graduation and college-going rates for boys, which are far lower than for girls.
As we’ve noted before, the Fordham Institute team with help from the Gates Foundation has embarked on a multi-stage think-fest concerning the long-term governance of the “Common Core” state standards and the forthcoming assessments that are meant to be
If he could make one significant change to public education today, Timothy Knowles, one of the founding fathers of teacher “residency” programs, would eliminate teacher tenure. Why? “The more difficult it is for principals to address underperformance, the more likely they are to use informal methods to do so.
According to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Donovan Forde has “multiple disabilities.” He’s part of a fraction of a fraction of special education students served by the public school system. In this New York Times profile, Sharon Otterman explores Donovan’s experience as a student at P.S.
P.J. O’Rourke has just learned—some of us were there a while back—that not only is it expensive to send kids to school, but it isn’t yielding much bang for the taxpayer’s buck. He explains: We’re spending on average a reported $11,000 per pupil—and more like north of $20,000 in reality. The teacher-pupil ratio is roughly 15:1.
Some uproar over schools having better AP ratings from Hispanic students taking AP Spanish, but why is this a problem?
?Why not evaluate each teacher individually on a variety of criteria such as test scores, instructional quality, parent satisfaction and peer comments? Teaching is unique, but so are other professions where such evaluations are commonplace.?
In 2007 we commissioned the well-respected economists Robert Costrell and Michael Podgursky to analyze Ohio's State Teachers Retirement S
For all you die-hard futbol fans out there, you probably saw the World Cup special prior to this year’s kickoff. And if your timing was right, you saw this inspirational clip on the Ivory Coast Soccer Academy. If you missed it, take a minute to watch it. Not a fan?
As we recently noted, the Ohio State Board of Education voted to adopt the Common Core academic standards.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer recently lifted up Baltimore City Schools as a possible model for Cleveland.
Ohio remains firmly in the throes of the economic recession and analysts predict that recovery is a long way off. The state was able to postpone much of the financial pain in the current biennial budget but faces an estimated $8 billion deficit in the next two-year budget. Work to address this shortfall has been slow to start in the Statehouse.
In the national Gadfly, Checker Finn and Stafford Palmieri highlight and commend teach union leaders across the country who are reform-minded visionaries and pragmatists that don’t always let the short-term self-interest of adults blind them to the long-term interests of children.
Saba BiredaCenter for American ProgressJune 2010 Momentum is building to reform teacher dismissal policies. Federal and state policymakers alike are calling for changes to K-12 education’s highly complex and costly dismissal procedures, especially as school districts face looming budget cuts.
Lori Drummer and Don SoiferLexington InstituteJune, 2010
Digital-game-inspired instruction isn’t the only thing that makes one New York City charter school unique. At Quest to Learn, professional development is focused on helping teachers infuse technology with instruction, and it isn’t just a one-off session.
The National Association of Charter School Authorizers recently issued its latest annual report on the policies and practices of the nation’s charter authorizers.