Ohio Gadfly Daily News 5-8-14
Jeff MurraySome excellent articles on the Third Grade Reading Guarantee in Northeast Ohio highlight today's clips.
Sector Switchers: Why Catholic Schools Convert to Charters and What Happens Next
Alyssa SchwenkAlthough they’ve long been a favorite of working-class parents in search of safe, structured, morally solid environments, inner-city Catholic schools have struggled with finances and enrollment numbers for decades.
Preventable Failure: Improvements in Long-Term Outcomes when High Schools Focused on the Ninth Grade Year
Michelle LernerNew research from the Consortium on Chicago School Research provides a relatively easy to-do list for district leaders who want to see more students progress toward graduation. Melissa Roderick and company use real-time data to identify and monitor pupil performance at one intervention point: the ninth-grade transition.
The Nation's Report Card, Grade 12: Reading and Mathematics 2013
Brandon L. WrightToday brought the eagerly awaited release of the 2013 NAEP results for 12th grade math and reading, which include scores for the nation as a whole as well as eleven pilot states.
Will students recover from credit recovery?
The Education GadflyIn a new Education Next article, Sarah Carr examines the burgeoning online credit-recovery industry.
Ohio Gadfly Daily News 5-7-14
Jeff MurrayNon-election news is hard to come by today. Enjoy what there is, bizarre as it is.
Ohio Gadfly Daily News 5-6-14
Jeff MurrayData scrubbing and building junking are just two of our topics for today's news roundup.
Ohio Gadfly Daily News 5-5-14
Jeff MurrayStart the week with some fresh education news and commentary from across Ohio.
Ohio Gadfly Daily News 5-2-14
Jeff MurraySlim but interesting pickings in education news across Ohio today.
Dad and the Diploma: The Difference Fathers Make for College Graduation
This AEI policy brief investigates whether involved fathers impact their kids’ chances of success in college—and finds that they surely do.
Promise and Paradox: Measuring Students’ Non-cognitive Skills and the Impact of Schooling
Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.There’s much interest in how schools can develop students’ non-cognitive skills, such as persistence and interpersonal skills, not just their academic prowess.
Keep your eyes on the prize
The Education GadflyThe Education Department announced that in 2012, public-high-school graduation rates reached an all-time high of 80 percent—and that if states can maintain the speed, we could reach 90 percent by 2020.
Ohio Gadfly Daily News 5-1-14
Jeff MurrayFrom Portsmouth to Lima and beyond today. Even folks in West Virginia are interested in what's going on in education in Ohio.
Ohio Gadfly Daily News 4-30-14
Jeff MurrayThe latest roundup of news - with Fordham commentary - from around Ohio.
Progress in Dayton Public Schools’ teacher-policy reforms
Kathryn Mullen UptonA look at the past year in teacher-policy reforms in Dayton.
Five things to know about Ohio’s vocational programs
Aaron ChurchillVocational education is big news and big business in Ohio - we attempt to unravel the layers to see just what students are getting for all the investment.
Ohio Gadfly Daily News 4-28-14
Jeff MurrayBoth ODE and CMSD take unprecedented steps. It's a good clips day.
Ohio Gadfly Daily News 4-25-14
Jeff MurrayA bunch of downers in today's Ohio education news. I'm glad it's Friday.
It’s autumn for InBloom
The Education GadflyInBloom, a nonprofit that warehoused and managed student data for many public-school districts, is tapping out after being
Collective Bargaining Agreement Provisions in the Wake of Ohio Teacher Evaluation System Legislation
Dara Zeehandelaar Shaw, Ph.D.After a controversial change to a state law, what happens on the ground? This piece, from last month’s meeting of the Association for Education Finance and Policy, delves into one such case. In 2012, Ohio lawmakers approved the Ohio Teacher Evaluation System (OTES), which requires evaluations be based on student-academic-growth measures, formal observations, and classroom walkthroughs.
Ohio Gadfly Daily News 4-23-14
Jeff MurrayA bumper crop of education stories today from across Ohio and even the Wall Street Journal.
Ohio Gadfly Daily News 4-21-14
Jeff MurrayBack after a short spring break - education news and commentary from around Ohio
Attaining Equitable Distribution of Effective Teachers in Public Schools
Andrew McDonnellHigh-quality teachers are distributed across schools in patterns that resemble life in the desert, fleeing harsh terrain for soothing oases, fleeing poorer schools for more affluent.
Do Standard Measures of Preschool Quality Used in Statewide Policy Predict School Readiness?
Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.The 2008 federal economic stimulus act invested $5 billion to support early-childhood programs, including $500 million for the Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge, which pushes states and localities to participate in the Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS).
Post tax-day fact: Ohio spends $20 billion on K-12 public education
Aaron ChurchillFor millions of Americans, yesterday was tax day. One of the major uses of those tax dollars is K-12 public education; in fact, Ohio spends approximately $20 billion per year on its public schools.
Indiana’s Potemkin Standards?
Kathleen Porter-MageeAs opposition to the Common Core State Standards has gained momentum in parts of the land, it’s important to ask what happens if a state changes its mind and renounces those standards—which, as we’ve long said, states have every right to