Policy Brief
Accountability & Testing, Teachers & School Leaders
Policy Brief: Pathways to Teaching in Ohio
A thorough overview of how teachers are trained and licensed
Report
Accountability & Testing, Governance, Standards
Establishing a baseline: Ohio’s education system as it enters a new era
Like other states, Ohio has over the past few years put into place a standards a
Policy Brief
Accountability & Testing, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders
Policy Brief: The Ohio Teacher Evaluation System
A thorough overview of Ohio's teacher evaluation framework
Commentary
Accountability & Testing
The ABCs of ADCs: An in-depth look at the new academic distress commission legislation
A new tool for school district reform
Commentary
Commentary
Charter Schools, Accountability & Testing
Ohio House proposes changes in testing, vouchers, and teacher evaluation
Looking beyond the "big issues" in Ohio's budget bill
Commentary
Curriculum & Instruction
National Board Certification and Teacher Effectiveness: Evidence from Washington
Are National Board Certified Teachers more effective than their non-certified counterparts?
Commentary
Accountability & Testing
Should districts get rid of middle schools?
Does middle school really stink?
Commentary
Curriculum & Instruction, Accountability & Testing
The promise of mastery grading (continued)
Pros and cons of mastery-based education
Commentary
Accountability & Testing
How to fix teacher evaluations
Ohio can learn an important lesson on teacher evaluation without descending into the same fight going on in New York
Commentary
Charter Schools, Accountability & Testing
Accountability in Private School Choice Programs
Every state is different, for better or worse
Commentary
Accountability & Testing, Charter Schools
Thomas B. Fordham Institute Testimony on Ohio House Bill 64
Chad's written testimony, delivered March 19, 2015.
Commentary
Commentary
Accountability & Testing
Common Core: A look at how Kentucky made it work
Looking across the river in search of lessons for Ohio
Commentary
Charter Schools, Accountability & Testing
Cheers and Jeers for March 9, 2015
The best and the worst of recent education news
Commentary
Curriculum & Instruction, Accountability & Testing
When the stakes get high, the politics shouldn’t get soft
An argument against watering down testing and accountability
Commentary
Accountability & Testing
Research Bites - 2/2/15
Looking at the state of education in Ohio’s State of the State cities
Commentary
Standards, Accountability & Testing
Deconstructing Ohio’s testing report recommendations
"Test mania" debunked - now for the real work to improve testing in Ohio
Commentary
Charter Schools, Accountability & Testing
What Schools Do Families Want (and Why)?
Real parent preferences revealed.
Commentary
Standards, Accountability & Testing
Cheers and Jeers for January 26, 2015
The good and the bad in recent Ohio education news.
Commentary
Accountability & Testing
Fixing No Child Left Behind: Oral testimony of Martin West
Editor's note: This testimony was presented at a hearing of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions onFixing No Child Left Behind: Testing and Accountability on January, 21, 2015.
Commentary
Accountability & Testing
Timely Ohio report could change the ESEA testing debate
Though hardly the only issue to be debated during the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education act, annual testing has taken center stage in discussions so far.
Commentary
Commentary
Commentary
Curriculum & Instruction
Differentiated instruction vs. ability grouping: It’s time to toss out “one or the other” thinking
How about a hybrid?