Ending Ohio’s charter-district feud
Children across Ohio will benefit if charters and school districts can end their feud and find ways to maximize resources across their schools.
Children across Ohio will benefit if charters and school districts can end their feud and find ways to maximize resources across their schools.
Current spending patterns show that the district isn’t systematically directing more dollars toward neediest students today.
As the 2011-12 school year ends, we want to highlight the unique events and successes that happened in our schools this year.
Three out of four (73.5 percent) of the national 2009 graduating class successfully graduated high school in four years.
Readers probably won’t find an end-all be-all solution to teacher evaluation in this report. What you will find is a starting place—to brainstorm which methods best fit your objectives.
The report challenges the choice system as it currently stands, saying that existing school choice programs, while delivering slightly better outcomes, are not challenging the public school sector as they need to be.
The Center for Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) takes a look at how strong charter management organizations manage staff to maximize the instructional and cultural coherence of the school.
For all the talk of gaps in achievement, opportunity, and funding between ethnic and racial groups in American education, a different divide may also be splitting our schools and our future. In his acclaimed and controversial recent book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010, scholar/pundit/provocateur Charles Murray describes a widening class schism.
Many of us have probably dozed off in class, and now $1.1 million in grants will go toward keeping classroom engagement alive.
A few suggestions for voucher accountability