Ohio’s “dropout factories”
In 2009, 135 Ohio high schools were identified as “dropout factories” – schools that fail to graduate more than 60 percent of their students on time.
In 2009, 135 Ohio high schools were identified as “dropout factories” – schools that fail to graduate more than 60 percent of their students on time.
Two outstanding high schools will be featured in a report looking at high-performing, high-poverty high schools: Dayton Early College Academy (a charter school) and Stivers Schools for the Arts (a district-operated magnet school).
Ever wonder what teachers think about issues such as student and teacher performance and how teachers should be evaluated, rewarded, and supported?
The claim that our nation’s schools too often fail to educate enough students to high levels of achievement is a bit of a broken record.
Birthdays, dinosaurs, and other potentially frightening or exclusive topics are now banned from NYC tests. AT&T Aspire, specifically launched to confron
The mainstream resistance to school choice is increasingly characterizing the education reform debate as students versus profits.
The Evergreen Education Group gives us more evidence that districts may be unwilling to give up their authority over online learning easily.
As bold as Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson's plan is, even more audacious is the political coalition that seems to be coalescing around it.
John Chubb asks if local boards should continue to control student access to instruction on the Internet.
Don’t miss Paul Gross’s latest piece on the neglect of evolution in state science standards.
Governor Bobby Jindal’s school voucher proposal for Louisiana has been dragged into the familiar politics of parental choice.
The former Florida governor is still hard at work reforming education.
Joel Klein and Condi Rice step up for school choice
School closures get a little easier to handle
The Left likes choice—just not too much choice
Finally some student-achievement data on turnarounds
The digital learning debate comes of age
Arne Duncan was only missing a "Mission Accomplished" banner on Monday when he announced that the Administration’s
The Harrison (CO) School District’s compensation plan, profiled in a recent Fordham report, represents another of yet a few compensation plans that totally redesign the actual teacher salary schedule. The Harrison plan reflects the kind of new teacher salary schedule I have been recommending for nearly two decades.
In 2009, 135 Ohio high schools were identified as "dropout factories" – schools that fail to graduate more than 60 percent of their students on time.
Guest blogger John Kirtley, chairman of Step Up for Students, answers Board's Eye View's BIG question: "What's the most important governance issue?"
It's not A Nation At Risk, but today's Council on Foreign Relations report on US education reform and national security makes bold statements on our progress toward higher educational standards and enhanced school choice.
Maybe not, is the answer from a recent poll of New York State teachers conducted by the Empire Center.
Ohio is in a competition for excellence in education, and despite some wins along the way we risk falling further behind some of our smarter and more nimble competitors.
Projections show that charter schools may grow to educate nearly half of D.C. public school students, but that milestone means they'll have to stop resorting to the expulsion of troubled students so quickly.
Guest blogger Harold Kwalwasser is the author of the inaugural post in Board's Eye View's series, "The BIG Question: What’s the most important education governance issue?"
A look at the merits of the science frameworks for the PISA, TIMSS, NAEP, and ACT.
The Archdiocese of New York announced this week that it would reshape the authority over its financially troubled Catholic school system, and its action should give advocates for Catholic education everywhere a reason to feel optimistic.
Governor Kasich's revealed his mid-biennium budget and so far it looks pretty good.