Charters for the gifted and talented?
A recap of Fordham's visit to Ohio's lone charter dedicated to serving gifted students
A recap of Fordham's visit to Ohio's lone charter dedicated to serving gifted students
March 20 Columbus event about gifted education
Ohio's college-bound students do well, but room aplenty to improve
Divided we stand
Up with selective public high schools!
Profiles of six public high schools that serve poor and minority students to high levels of excellence.
Invest in the game-changers
Everyone and their mothers are talking about the so-called “fiscal cliff”—the automatic budget cuts and tax increases that will affect all federal discretionary spending programs, cut you off in traffic, steal an old lady’s handbag, and wreak general havoc if lawmakers don’t co
Our data show that students frequently change schools. Should public policies try to slow student mobility? Encourage it? Or make policies better attuned to it?
We need to raise the ceiling for Ohio's highest-performing students
The newest addition to Fordham's library, co-authored by Checker and Jessica Hockett
Aggressive marketing campaigns have led to an
Drop-out recovery charter schools annually serve about 20 percent of Ohio’s charter students but have never been held accountable for the performance of their students.
Fast-tracking the future in the Sunshine State
The central problem besetting K-12 education in the United States today is still—as for almost thirty years now—that far too few of our kids are learning nearly enough for their own or the nation’s good. And the gains we’ve made, though well worth making, have been meager (and largely confined to math), are trumped by gains in other countries, and evaporate by the end of high school.