Longing for the Holy Grail
Jeff Murray vividly reminds us what it's like to lose the school-choice lottery
Jeff Murray vividly reminds us what it's like to lose the school-choice lottery
Wayward Sons, a recent report published by the policy think tank the Third Way, finds that the average girl’s educational and career outcomes have improved over time, while boys tend to be faring worse.
When Ohio Governor John Kasich released his “Achievement Everywhere” school funding plan in late February it was widely criticized for “stealing from the poor and giving to the rich.”
Yesterday, I spent all day hitting the Refresh button on my email account. Probably 653 times. Why? Because the one school that we wanted for our children for next year was to announce its lottery results to those lucky few who would be chosen. 12 or 13 slots for sixth grade, out of an application pool of several hundred (wish I knew exactly how many).
Did you miss Ohio's recent event? A video is now available!
Recap of today's panel discussion around the findings from Fordham's survey of superintendents
The Justice Department has taken school-voucher policy to unstable ground
This report is based on the responses to an online survey conducted in Spring 2013 with 344 school district superintendents in Ohio. The survey covered seven education policies, specifically: Common Core State Standards, teacher evaluations, the Third Grade Reading Guarantee, open enrollment, A-to-F ratings for schools and districts, individualized learning (blended learning and credit flexibility), and school choice (charter schools and vouchers). It also included several questions on general attitudes towards school reform in Ohio and two trend items. Download today to discover the key findings!
When a Michigan House committee approved a measure that would allow students to skip Algebra 2 if they instead take a tec
Don’t draw conclusions in haste
Brookings says: Trash the TRIO programs
This interview with the United States Department of Education is the third and final installment in our Common Core testing consortia series
The second installment of the testing-consortia series is a conversation with Smarter Balanced
The inaugural installment of By the Company It Keeps, an interview series with some of ed reform’s most important contributors
The Dayton Early College Academy (DECA) is Dayton’s highest performing high school (district or charter), but is being trashed by a Columbus organization.
With potential tactics still in play to sustain the voucher expansion, it is likely that this ruling will simply be a pothole on the road to voucher expansion in Louisiana
Low standards, low expectations
A tricky line of research gets worthy treatment
Our Gadfly readers won’t
About 8,000 children had already been promised vouchers for next year when the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled its method of funding unconstitutional
Few school systems have embraced a crisis of opportunity quite like the school system in Reynoldsburg, Ohio.
A coalition that included high performing charter schools from Cleveland, Columbus and Dayton testified in front of the Senate Finance Committee’s Education Subcommittee on May 7th.
The Reynoldsburg City School District, just east of Columbus, is far down the “portfolio management” path – further than probably any suburban school district of its size. This feature article discusses portfolio management and takes readers behind the scenes in Reynoldsburg.
A profile feature article about the Reynoldsburg City School District
As the charter movement enters its third decade, it is imperative that policymakers and legislators understand the perspective of those schools that have succeeded in providing their students with a quality education.
Despite the surge in charter enrollment, charters still largely direct money from instruction, classroom support, and administration to their facilities