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Curriculum & Instruction
Is everything you’ve heard about failing schools wrong?
No accountability system is perfect, but we can all agree that one that gets it wrong as often as it gets it right is in need of serious reform. But is there any proof that is happening?
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Cleveland schools are doing great things despite what critics (Stephen Dyer and Diane Ravitch) say
Diane Ravitch posted a guest blog by Stephen Dyer earlier this week entitled “The Good, Bad and Ugly in the Cleveland Plan.”
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Charter Schools
The Effects of School Vouchers on College Enrollment: Experimental Evidence from New York City
Catnip for the school-choice proponent
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Recent State Action on Teacher Effectiveness: What’s in State Laws and Regulations
One-stop teacher-policy shop
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Charter Schools
The Impact of Charter Schools on Public and Private School Enrollment
A rising school-choice tide for charters and vouchers alike
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Charter Schools
A new policy for the PTA finally shows more “P” than “T”
The National PTA shakes up its stance on charter authorizing
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The D-Word: Good news from New York, but…
Perhaps it's time to rethink what "discipline" means in schools
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Cincinnati is a leader in Common Core implementation
Cincinnati Public Schools is well into the nitty gritty of implementing the new Common Core academic standards in English language arts and mathematics
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Public Education in the United States: A Nation Divided
This Phi Delta Kappan (PDK)/Gallup survey provides some tantalizing and provocative results regard public education
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Ohio: The Condition of College & Career Readiness, 2012
Buckeye State high-school students slightly outperformed their national peers in all tested subjects
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Opportunities Suspended: The Disparate Impact of Disciplinary Exclusion from School
The Civil Rights Project at UCLA looks at the rates of suspension for K-12 public school students on the national, state, and district level
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The Effects of School Vouchers on College Enrollment: Experimental Evidence from New York City
Report examines the impact of school vouchers on college enrollment rates of students who were entering grades one through five
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New hires, new tools, new results…?
This school year is shepherding in lots of changes in Buckeye state schools! Vacancies in Central Ohio have allowed districts to hire more entry-level teachers.
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Compulsory School Attendance: What Research Says and What It Means for State Policy
Can stricter compulsory school attendance (CSA) laws improve high school graduation rates?
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A serious mess: Ohio's school-data scandal has profound ripple effects
The state board's decision to delay report cards has widespread ramifications for Ohio
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How to guarantee the reading guarantee
The policy can benefit kids, but only if the schools and state do things differently
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Dayton Daily News Q&A: Fordham working to improve our schools
Terry Ryan talks about Fordham's work in the Gem City and education issues facing Dayton and the state
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On the horizon: harder tests
Common Core’s aligned assessments will be more difficult for Ohio students
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Charter Schools
Charter schools “wreaking havoc on private education?” Not exactly.
What the latest Cato study gets right...and wrong
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Teacher unions, part 2: a perversion of democracy?
Should teacher unions be allowed to give money to their bosses—the legislators who write the laws that give them their privileges—and their salaries?
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Charter Schools
A modest school voucher led to outsize results
A new study shows that black students who won a school-voucher lottery in New York a generation ago were more likely to attend college than students who didn’t win.
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Searching in vain for the “invest-in-the-future” ticket
Education or “Medicare as we know it". Pick one.
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Charter Schools
Philly shakes up Catholic education—again
The nation’s oldest parochial school system starts fresh
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Some Assembly Required: Building a Better Accountability System for California
Accountability we all might agree on