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Are online credit recovery programs too flexible for their own good?
A recent EducationNext article pinpoints some weakness in online credit recovery programs which Ohio is experiencing first hand.
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Are online credit recovery programs too flexible for their own good?
A recent EducationNext article pinpoints some weakness in online credit recovery programs which Ohio is experiencing first hand.
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Ohio Gadfly Daily News 5-8-14
Some excellent articles on the Third Grade Reading Guarantee in Northeast Ohio highlight today's clips.
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Charter Schools
Sector Switchers: Why Catholic Schools Convert to Charters and What Happens Next
Although they’ve long been a favorite of working-class parents in search of safe, structured, morally solid environments, inner-city Catholic schools have struggled with finances and enrollment numbers for decades.
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Preventable Failure: Improvements in Long-Term Outcomes when High Schools Focused on the Ninth Grade Year
New research from the Consortium on Chicago School Research provides a relatively easy to-do list for district leaders who want to see more students progress toward graduation. Melissa Roderick and company use real-time data to identify and monitor pupil performance at one intervention point: the ninth-grade transition.
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The Nation's Report Card, Grade 12: Reading and Mathematics 2013
Today brought the eagerly awaited release of the 2013 NAEP results for 12th grade math and reading, which include scores for the nation as a whole as well as eleven pilot states.
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Will students recover from credit recovery?
In a new Education Next article, Sarah Carr examines the burgeoning online credit-recovery industry.
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Ohio Gadfly Daily News 5-7-14
Non-election news is hard to come by today. Enjoy what there is, bizarre as it is.
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Ohio Gadfly Daily News 5-6-14
Data scrubbing and building junking are just two of our topics for today's news roundup.
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Ohio Gadfly Daily News 5-5-14
Start the week with some fresh education news and commentary from across Ohio.
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Dad and the Diploma: The Difference Fathers Make for College Graduation
This AEI policy brief investigates whether involved fathers impact their kids’ chances of success in college—and finds that they surely do.
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Promise and Paradox: Measuring Students’ Non-cognitive Skills and the Impact of Schooling
There’s much interest in how schools can develop students’ non-cognitive skills, such as persistence and interpersonal skills, not just their academic prowess.
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Keep your eyes on the prize
The Education Department announced that in 2012, public-high-school graduation rates reached an all-time high of 80 percent—and that if states can maintain the speed, we could reach 90 percent by 2020.
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Ohio Gadfly Daily News 5-1-14
From Portsmouth to Lima and beyond today. Even folks in West Virginia are interested in what's going on in education in Ohio.