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Commentary
6.13.2017
Accountability & Testing

Beware of fake policy solutions

Jamie Davies O'Leary

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.

Commentary
6.12.2017
Charter Schools

Research roundup: Interdistrict Open Enrollment in Ohio

Ohio Education Gadfly

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

Podcast
6.7.2017
ESSA

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.

Commentary
6.6.2017
Charter Schools

Foreword: Interdistrict Open Enrollment in Ohio

Aaron Churchill , Chad L. Aldis

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.

Commentary
6.2.2017

Mike Petrilli vs. Liz King on setting utopian goals in education reform

Michael J. Petrilli

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.