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ESSA
How will ESSA change Ohio’s school report cards?
ESSA implementation means changes to Ohio's school report cards
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What "Hamilton" and its 11 Tonys say about grit and privilege
The ten-dollar founding father without a father,Got a lot farther by working a lot harder,
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Curriculum & Instruction
Open educational resources are just building blocks—an education requires an architect
If there were just one thing I could say to fans of open educational resources (OER) and personalized learning, it would be this: “Atomized units of knowledge don’t build anything.” That quote comes from an education reformer who used to teach in a high-powered classical school.
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The Ali edition
On this week’s podcast, Mike Petrilli and Checker Finn discuss the growing left-right schism in education reform, whether we need more than just "no-excuses" charter schools for poor kids, and a Maryland county’s attempt to diversify its gifted programs. During the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines the effectiveness of SEED DC, the nation’s first public, urban, college-preparatory boarding school.
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Charter Schools, Advanced Education
Charter Icahnoclast
We here at Fordham are really jazzed about the potential of high-quality career and technical education (CTE).
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Charter Schools
Market malfunctions in the charter sector
By Chester E. Finn, Jr. and Brandon L. Wright
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Advanced Education
Standard deviations: Creative writers take standardized writing tests?
Students at the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology produce the highest SAT and ACT scores in the nation. All of the students take at least one Advanced Placement exam, with 97 percent of them scoring well enough to receive college credit. But those high scores don’t come without intellectual cost.
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Charter Schools
We need to take a closer look at charter school graduation rates
A high school diploma is a critical marker in the transition to adulthood that affects labor participation, social mobility, and opportunities for success. The good news is that high school graduation rates reached an all-time high of 82 percent in spring 2014. The overall graduation rate for charter public schools, however, fell short of that number by ten points.
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Hillary Clinton quotes about education
Hillary Clinton is America’s first woman to be a presidential nominee for a major political party. In November, she’ll take on GOP nominee Donald Trump and the Libertarian Party’s Gary Johnson (and his running mate William Weld). Clinton has been a public figure since 1979, when she became the First Lady of Arkansas, so she has said much about education over the last thirty-seven years. Here are some of her more recent views.
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ESSA
Secretary King is wrong: ESEA was not a civil rights law
As Flypaper readers know all too well, newly arrived Education Secretary John B. King, Jr., is in hot water with Congress, state governors, and various school reformers.
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Charter Schools
Auditor Yost visits high-performing United Preparatory Academy
A first-hand look at another high-performing charter school
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Charter Schools
Charter school pluralism: "No-excuses" and beyond
This is the third in a series of essays marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of America’s first charter school law.
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ESSA
The ESSA honeymoon is over
With our laser-like focus on American K–12 education (and the even narrower territory of American K–12 reform), it can be easy to forget that good schooling can be found in many forms—and many settings.
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The Family Feud edition
On this week’s podcast, Mike Petrilli and Alyssa Schwenk discuss the debate sparked by Robert Pondiscio’s recent article, the Department of Education’s proposed ESSA regulations, and Kansas’s school funding debacle. During the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines whether a teacher observation framework can affect student outcomes.
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Charter Schools
Social justice, education reform, and how this whole Left-Right feud is missing the point
By Derrell Bradford
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Charter Schools
Gary Johnson quotes about education
Gary Johnson, the former two-term governor of New Mexico, is the Libertarian Party’s presidential nominee.
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Advanced Education
The importance of parent intuition and observation in recognizing highly creative children
In my work with hundreds of families, I have observed one common truth: Parents are the experts on their own children, especially when it comes to giftedness. Parents often observe certain characteristics in their children and view them as positive traits—until those same characteristics are regarded negatively in school.
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Powerlessness, anger, and schools
I believe people are generally at their angriest when they feel powerless.It’s one thing to be unhappy with the current state of your life—heck, we’ve all been there. But it’s entirely different when there’s nothing you can do about it. That causes fury.
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Charter Schools
The Left may have the louder voice in school reform, but conservatives shouldn't despair
By Terry Ryan
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A time for discomfort
As I reflected the post written by my friend and colleague Robert Pondiscio this week, and why it hit such
