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Governance
Gadfly Bites 11/27/24—I am thankful for…
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 11/25/24—Looking for options, are you, kids?
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Charter Schools
2024 Fordham Sponsorship Annual Report
Our 2023-24 Sponsorship Annual Report details our work providing monitoring, oversight, and technical assistance to ten schools across sixteen campuses that served approximately 6,300 students in Dayton, Columbus, Cincinnati, and Portsmouth, Ohio.
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Accountability & Testing
Will Ohio’s revamped post-secondary readiness measure have sufficient rigor?
A new rating system for student readiness is nearly completed and could be part of Ohio's school report cards next year. However, we recommend some improvements before it is fully rolled out.
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 11.22.24
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. Columbus transportation concerns may escalate
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 11/22/24—Told you so
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Private School Choice
Testimony on Ohio House Bill 407—11/20/24
Note: On November 20, 2024, the Ohio House Primary and Secondary Education Committee heard testimony on
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 11/20/24—Absentia
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Curriculum & Instruction
What should Ohio policymakers do to boost math proficiency?
Through its science of reading initiative, Ohio is devoting significant resources to strengthening literacy across the state. Boosting reading proficiency is essential, and this ambitious effort holds great promise to do just that.
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Accountability & Testing
How low-performing school identification changed from the NCLB to ESSA era
In 2001, Congress enacted No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the much-discussed statute that, among other things, required states to identify their lowest-performing schools and help them improve. In 2015, in an effort to address perceived problems with NCLB, lawmakers revised the law into its current form, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).
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Career & Technical Education
Ohio must measure the value of industry-recognized credentials
Ohio students are earning industry-recognized credentials in record numbers. But it's unclear whether doing so will boost graduates’ job or income prospects. Here are two important measures the state can use to determine the value of credentials.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 11/18/24—Conversation or monologue?
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 11.15.24
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. One final post-election news story
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 11/15/24—The “process”
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 11/13/24—Please mess with success
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 11/11/24—Icky
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 11.8.24
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. Post-election news pt. 1 – Kentucky
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 11/8/24—Moving parts
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Curriculum & Instruction
The impact of an influx of English Learners on existing students
The number of English learner (EL) students enrolled in public schools has grown substantially in the United States over the past two decades. How has this impacted non-EL students in those schools? New research aims to find out.
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Accountability & Testing
With third-grade retention in shambles, it’s another year of social promotion in Ohio
Without a strong third grade retention policy, it’s a sure bet that Ohio students who cannot read proficiently are being promoted to fourth grade. We look at the data which starkly illustrate the problematic return of “social promotion.”
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 11/4/24—Money (not) well spent
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Accountability & Testing
Keeping Ohio’s talented students in the Buckeye State should be a priority for policymakers
The Economist recently made the case that the United States economy is the envy of the world.
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 11.1.24
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 11/1/24—No follow-ups
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