Mayor Jackson’s reasonable request of Ohio’s charter community
It is in the hope of stemming the loss of families and children that the mayor has proposed his bold school reform plan that seeks to turn the city’s educational fortunes around.
It is in the hope of stemming the loss of families and children that the mayor has proposed his bold school reform plan that seeks to turn the city’s educational fortunes around.
It is in the hope of stemming the loss of families and children that the mayor has proposed his bold school reform plan that seeks to turn the city’s educational fortunes around.
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.
With trivial exceptions, Washington does not run schools, employ teachers, buy textbooks, write curriculum, hand out diplomas, or decide who gets promoted to 5th grade.
Are Ohio’s special education students benefiting from all this spending? Not if you look at their student achievement.
The report, Future Shock: Early Common Core Lessons from Ohio Implementers, will be released next week, but some of Belcher’s findings are worth reporting early because this is such a burning issue for schools and educators across the state.
For school administrators and board members lost in the forest of books, reports, and briefs written on “doing more with less,” this outstanding volume provides a compass, map, and sturdy walking stick.
The mass implementation of communication technology delivery tools like blogs, wikis, and Twitter has radically changed how information is disseminated and received.
In this report, the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) examines the “21st-Century Initiative, the overall goal of which is to arm an additional five million students with diplomas, certificates, or other credentials by 2020.
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.
Circle May 30 on your calendars because the Fordham Institute is gathering a diverse group of experts to answer a crucial education policy question: How much will smart Common Core implementation cost?
At one time or another, most people like to think of themselves as flawless. We just hope that the annoying reminder that we all make mistakes isn’t broadcast too far or wide. Unfortunately in the education world, your mistake can occasionally be laid out to the public.
Is Ohio’s special education spending spree warranted? If special education students are achieving, then yes.
There is a saying among high performing schools that there is no 100 percent solution to helping students learn. Instead, there are a hundred 1 percent solutions that add up to big results. The same is true in the world of education policy.
Chris Christie and Cory Booker may have been the headliners at a school choice policy summit last week, but it was a largely unknown corporate representative who provided some sobering perspective.
Guest blogger Jay P. Greene argues parental choice and control offer a better approach to governing education than state or national control.
What the Schmidt and Whitehurst studies tell usand don't tell usabout the Common Core State Standards.
Where the wonks and the educators disagree
Fast-tracking the future in the Sunshine State
As close to a win-win as budget cuts get
Putting “career” back in “college and career”
The what and who, but not the how (much)
Designer Kenneth Cole dipped his toe into the education reform fray recently with a New York City billboard that framed “teachers’ rights vs. students’ rights” as an issue in his foundation’s “Where Do You Stand?” campaign.
There is a student whose needs often go unmet by the schoolhouse and the statehouse—high-achieving, but not quite gifted, one who receives less attention from principals and policymakers focused on bringing the bottom up to proficiency.
Fordham's Terry Ryan explains how educators in Ohio see the Common Core and the challenges of implementation.
Common sense, increasingly scarce in the public debate around the Common Core among talking heads and the chattering class, still prevails in the heartland.