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Charter Schools
The state of charter authorizing
This report is great data on a critically important field
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Charter Schools
Charter boards, know thy duty
When boards are mere rubber stamps, questions about accountability, incentives, and conflicts of interest are sure to follow
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Charter Schools
The recovery school district
The most significant governance innovation since charter schools?
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Charter Schools
Rebooting charters: Charter school board capacity essential to school success
Capacity is something that requires ongoing maintenance and at least an annual critique.
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Charter Schools
Rebooting charters: Charter school board capacity essential to school success
Have a high performing charter school? Chances are it’s got a savvy board whose membership consists of mission-aligned individuals with diverse professional expertise and experience that is leveraged to advance a strategic and defined vision, and achieve a specific set of goals.
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Charter Schools
Redefining the School District in Tennessee by Nelson Smith
Is it time for Ohio and other states to take bolder steps toward turning around our most troubled schools and districts?
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Charter Schools
American Indian charter schools: Keep the charter, but fire the board
It may seem absurd that one of California’s worst-performing school districts can kill the state’s finest charter school network. But that is the reality facing the 650 mostly poor and minority, but very high-achieving students enrolled at the American Indian Model charter schools.
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
Our evaluations aren’t shady
The National Education Association is suing Florida for its teacher-evaluation policy;
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Charter Schools
An object lesson in charter school creation
The Columbus Dispatch is reporting today that Gahanna-Jefferson Public Schools will be discontinuing their experiment with charter school creation at the end of this school year.
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction, Advanced Education
Failing the gifted—and everyone else
The Obama administration’s budget proposal was late to the par
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Charter Schools
Principals’ perceptions of competition for students in Milwaukee schools
Principals feel the heat—but their response is lukewarm
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Charter Schools
A charter school leader responds to charter critic
John Dues, school director for Columbus Collegiate Academy, wrote a response to a charter-school critic's piece that recently appeared as a Letter to the Editor in The Columbus Dispatch.
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Charter Schools
Hard to kill charter school canards
Discover the three canards about charter schools that have been repeated in news stories and by anti-charter folks in Ohio.
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Charter Schools
Open enrollment sweeps across Ohio
Traditional district boundaries are becoming increasingly blurred.
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Charter Schools
Teach For America, Dayton, and its schools
Ohio’s urban educational systems are talent deserts - Teach For America provides water, and if done right, oases of talent
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Charter Schools
Tackling gym class woes and Common Core foes
The Fordham Institute has been engaged in a wide range of conversations recently, ranging from the Common Core to teacher evaluations in subjects without well-established exams. If you’ve missed any of these events or publications, check out the following notes.
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Charter Schools
Serving English Language Learners: A Toolkit for Public Charter Schools
According to a report by the National Center for Education Statistics, the United States is experiencing an increase in the number of English language learners (ELL) served in the K-12 educational system.
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Charter Schools
Do School Districts Matter?
Grover Whitehurst, Matthew Chingos, and Michael Gallaher of the Brookings Institution examine school districts in relation to student achievement, in the aptly-titled report, Do Districts Matter?
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Charter Schools
Cuyahoga County starting kids on the right foot
A glimpse of the latest Ohio education headlines
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Charter Schools
Stand and deliver
This article originally appeared in Carnegie Mellon Today. It is reprinted with permission.
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Charter Schools
Hard to kill charter school canards
In recent weeks, however, the anti-charter crowd has been working the state’s newspapers to spread half-truths and canards about Ohio’s charter school program.
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Charter Schools
Open enrollment sweeps across Ohio
Districts' traditional boundary lines continue to blur
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Charter Schools
What explains KIPP’s success?
Mathematica doesn’t find the magic formula for KIPP’s success. But, there are a few tantalizing results.
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Charter Schools
Left-of-center reformers: Join the voucher movement today
In which Mike addresses the left's main concerns with voucher programs
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Charter Schools
Time for more generous vouchers and Catholic charter schools
But because charters and Catholic schools share similar traits and comparable missions in serving inner-city, low-income youth, there ought to be equal opportunities for each sector to thrive
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Charter Schools
Governance in the charter school sector: Time for a reboot
As charters evolve, so must the rules
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Charter Schools
Moving beyond the fringe voices in the voucher debate
The New York Times published a semi-balanced story today on the growth of the private school-choice movement
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Charter Schools
Governance in the charter school sector: Time for a reboot
Much has happened in the charter sector in the last twenty years, but the laws ruling its governance largely remain the same
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Charter Schools
Governance in the Charter School Sector: Time for a Reboot
Review by Terry Ryan of Fordham's latest report