The 2010 Brown Center Report on American Education: How Well Are American Students Learning?
Marena PerkinsAmerica has never topped the international charts
A Measured Approach to Improving Teacher Preparation
Gerilyn SlickerA new cookie jar for the hand of Uncle Sam
Value-Added Measures in Education: What Every Educator Needs to Know
Chris IrvineA balanced VAM primer?and some recs to boot
The State of Charter School Authorizing: A Report on NACSA???s Authorizer Survey
Kathryn Mullen UptonWhen it comes to authorizers, bigger is better
Evolution and urban Catholic schools
One about science curriculum, the other about donor accountability
The anachronism of school boards
Chester E. Finn, Jr.Well-meaning caretakers are not what our education system needs
What's missing from the "Akron mom" conversation
Emmy L. PartinIn today's Ohio Education Gadfly, Jamie, Bianca, and I explore what's missing from the debate around Kelley Williams-Bolar, the Akron mom who was jailed for nine days and convicted of tampering with documents in order to send her two children to a school outside their home district.
Failed Ohio school turnaround in the New York Times
Terry RyanIn a New York Times article this week, Sam Dillon examined the Obama administration's $4 billion attempt to turn around the country's worst schools and highlighted Ohio's capital city's $20 million effort to remake seven of the city's most troubled schools.