Deconstructing Ohio’s testing report recommendations
Jessica Poiner"Test mania" debunked - now for the real work to improve testing in Ohio
Cheers and Jeers for January 26, 2015
Jeff MurrayThe good and the bad in recent Ohio education news.
Common Core in Ohio: don’t look back
Jessica PoinerThere is no room for Sisyphus in the fight to improve Ohio schools.
International Benchmarking: State and National Education Performance Standards
Aaron ChurchillThe "Massachusetts Miracle" was more than just higher standards implemented well.
A portrait of Ohio at the cusp of a new era
Aaron ChurchillThe Buckeye State is at the cusp of an era of new emphasis in K-12 education - the college-and-career-ready era. We look at Ohio's report cards in this new light.
Effort to repeal Common Core leaves Ohio school board member “baffled”
Worthington school board member’s testimony in support of Common Core
The problems with House Bill 597
Jessica PoinerPart Two of our analysis of the problems with the latest legislative assault on Common Core in Ohio.
Pulling an Indiana: How House Bill 597 mimics the Common Core
Jessica PoinerThink we're getting something new from HB597? Think again.
Ten things Ohio Common Core opponents don’t want you to know
Jessica PoinerAs another legislative assault on the Common Core in Ohio begins, here's a few things you might want to know.
For higher performance, use informal channels of teacher feedback
Aaron ChurchillOhio’s new teacher-evaluation system requires evaluators to conduct two, formal thirty-minute classroom observations. Yet these legally prescribed observations seem ripe for compliance and rote box-checking; in fact, they may not be quite the impetus for school-wide improvement that policymakers had hoped for.
Ohio’s high-flying public schools, in reading
Aaron ChurchillWe look for - and find - the public schools ranked in the top 10 percent on Ohio’s value-added measure for reading in each of the past four years.
Spending More of the School Day in Math Class: Evidence From a Regression Discontinuity in Middle School
Laura RobisonWe take a look at the evidence for and against "double dosing" in middle school math.
Ohio's New Learning Standards: Helping, not hampering
This piece was originally published the United States Chamber of Commerce’s website on Wednesday, July 23, 2014. Six days later, two legislators proposed a new legislative assault on Ohio’s New Learning Standards, which include the Common Core State Standards in math and English language arts.
Is alternative accountability real accountability?
Aaron ChurchillDo Ohio's multiple accountability "systems" erode the very foundation of accountability?
Standardized Tests: Correlation to Future Successes? (Part I of II)
Laura RobisonFirst of a two-part analysis looking at early indicators to future success.
2011-12 Ohio Report Card Analysis
Aaron ChurchillOur annual analysis of school performance in our home state's major urban areas, plus a projection of proficiency rates when the PARCC exams arrive in 2014-15.
Future Shock: Early Common Core implementation lessons from Ohio
With the 2014-15 Common-Core transition looming, we wondered: How are Ohio’s educators preparing themselves for this big change? Who is doing this work and what can other schools and districts learn from the early adopters? What are lessons, hopes, and fears facing those on the frontlines who have to lead Ohio’s embrace of significantly more rigorous academic standards?
2006-07 Ohio Report Cards
Emmy L. Partin, Terry RyanDespite a decade of significant school reform efforts in Ohio, students in the state's largest cities still struggle mightily to meet basic academic standards and are nowhere close to achieving the goals set by the federal No Child Left Behind law, according to an analysis of the latest Ohio school report-card data.
Ohioans' Views on Education 2007
Steve FarkasThis survey covers such topics as school quality and funding, academic standards, school reforms, proposals to improve how the public schools are run, teacher quality, charter schools and school vouchers. It follows up a survey conducted in 2005 and many of the questions are repeated, allowing us to gauge whether attitudes have shifted over time.