It’s primary season in statehouses nationwide, and that means that teachers unions will pit Democrat against Democrat by using the support of school vouchers as a wedge.
There is little dispute that information about the academic gains students make (or don’t) is a valuable addition to pure student proficiency data. But there is little agreement about how best to calculate growth and how to use it to inform things like teacher evaluations and school rating systems.
Guest blogger Matt Chingos of the Brookings Institution writes that it's disconcerting to see both presidential frontrunners present proposals on this issue that may be good politics but are bad policy.
Not until Florida passed a law requiring schools to hold back third graders who read poorly did districts get serious about helping those students catch up, the director of an ed reform group said on Thursday.
How to prove Tom Loveless's argument that Common Core standards don’t matter is wrong.
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Housing policy is education policy
Into the weighted-student-funding looking glass
A recent Hewlett Foundation study made the surprising discovery that computers are "capable of producing scores similar to human scores" when grading student essays.
The Philadelphia school district’s plan to lift itself out of financial and academic distress may have overshadowed a profound development this week for Catholic education in the City of Brotherly Love.
Can we be smarter about taking high-quality online and blended schools to scale—and to educational success?
Another change in the works, one not included in the governor’s bill, is equally important when it comes to helping all players in the K-12 arena prepare for the higher expectations and rigor of the Common Core standards.
Grade inflation is a way of life in American education, and campaigns to combat it face political pushback and a long, uphill battle to succeed.
The Fiscal Integrity Act waits until a school or district is declared unauditable before the treasurer faces suspension. But in fact, a district can be misspending public money and still be “auditable.”
Despite some signs of economic recovery, school districts nationwide continue to struggle mightily.
Billions of dollars are being spent to increase learning time in struggling schools through Extended Learning Time (ELT). “ELT,” which the U.S. Department of Education defines as the use of a longer school day, week, or year, is a key component of the School Improvement Grant program aimed at turning around failing public schools.
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) recently released Arts Education In Public Elementary and Secondary Schools1999-2000 and 2009-10, a report detailing the status of arts education in K-12 schools, the third study of its kind.
You know that education reform has reached new levels of awareness when Saturday Night Live has a parody of Geoffrey Canada, the founder and CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone.
Don’t miss this important, nonpartisan event about digital learning and where it will take education in Ohio -- and the nation -- in the years to come.
The third-grade reading guarantee and A to F school-rating system that are hallmarks of Governor Kasich’s mid-biennium budget aren’t new ideas in education. Florida enacted the changes years ago and has seen student achievement rise as a result.
Philly's School Recovery Committee deserves credit for making smart structural changes to the way Philly will operate in the future.
The opt-out charter school lottery proposed in Connecticut would only discourage effective charter applicants who will see a burdensome and costly mandate getting in the way of their mission.
Looking back at wit and wisdom from the Fordham Institute’s blogs for the week of April 16.
A new Brookings report argues that zoning regulations are segregating cities by income and race and leaving quality schools available to mostly higher income families.
The U.S. spends more per capita on education than every other country in the OECD except Switzerland. Yet teacher salaries are relatively low and students underperform their OECD peers on international tests. The solution to all these problems may just be to pay teachers more money, especially in salary rather than expensive fringe benefits.
The Lone Star State needn’t go it alone anymore
