Third-grade reading guarantee: Is money the answer?
The state board considers $105 million in spending on the third-grade reading guarantee.
The state board considers $105 million in spending on the third-grade reading guarantee.
While the education show goes on in Chicago, Ohio's workhorses plow ahead
Why replication in education falls short
Peanut-butter sandwiches, drum circles, and where education took a wrong turn
The pros and cons of state policies that require retention of third-grade students
An IBM-style question to schools: what are you doing to utilize data to improve performance?
The case for a solid liberal arts education beyond high schools
A look at Paul Bambrick-Santoyo's new book, "Leverage Leadership: A Practical Guide to Building Exceptional Schools"
Matriculating is not enough
This paper uses systems thinking to provide common sense ideas for saving money while improving special education services to the more than 275,000 Ohio students with special needs.
No accountability system is perfect, but we can all agree that one that gets it wrong as often as it gets it right is in need of serious reform. But is there any proof that is happening?
Race, school discipline, and curriculum
Welcome to the Battle of Just-Right Texts
An empiricist votes “yes” on tracking
Anthony Kim of Education Elements comes to Ohio
Instead of a helpful resource, their new book simply defends existing--and poorly aligned--curricular material.
The golden opportunity provided by the “K-8 Publishers Criteria for the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics.”
Who better to speak to contemporary American youth than one of the nation’s most prolific inventors and entrepreneurs?
If it happens, thank E.D. Hirsch
Will the few critical but passing phrases that link the Common Core ELA standards to a content-rich curriculum be enough to drive instructional changes our students so desperately need?
The power of the humanities
Text complexity is the new black
The guidance that’s starting to emerge about how teachers can best select “grade-appropriate” texts may actually end up undermining the Common Core’s emphasis on improving the quality and rigor of the texts students are reading.
The autonomy agenda matters
Guest blogger Paul Gross addresses the enduring (and false) belief that scientific reasoning is separable from the content of science.
In the end, the “just right” theory of reading instruction is focused on the right goal—having students read independently and with deep understanding. But the way it tries to get there may be exactly what is holding our students back from achieving at the levels they need.
Philosophical gravitas from an unexpected source.
The Common Core is common sense