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Needles in a Haystack: Lessons from Ohio's High-Performing Urban High Schools
What makes a great school?
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Charter Schools
Bold reforms in Cleveland and Columbus need new talent to fly high
How school leaders are working to bring talent into school districts
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The definition of college-ready
New standards spell out assessment thresholds for students to be remediation free
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Beyond Needles: What do we know about Ohio's high-performing schools?
Strong schools require leadership, healthy school culture, high expectations
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The Magnitude, Destinations, and Determinants of Mathematics and Science Teacher Turnover
Why math and science teachers leave the profession
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Beating the odds: Inside Dayton's high-performing public high schools
Join us at Stivers High School in Dayton to share ideas about what makes schools great. January 15 at 7pm.
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Ohio earns C minus on StudentsFirst inaugural education reform Report Card
Ohio's education reforms are better than most states, but the Buckeye State still has a ways to go.
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
Healthy skepticism
In the biggest non-surprise of 2012, the U.S.
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The Magnitude, Destinations, and Determinants of Mathematics and Science Teacher Turnover
Speaking of turnovers…
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Charter Schools
How good charter school outcomes in Indiana could have been better
The findings would have been better if not for the performance of schools overseen by one authorizer—Ball State University
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Curriculum & Instruction
Real lessons from Finland: Hard choices, rigorously implemented
To understand what is going on in Finland, its perhaps important to start not with a snapshot of their test scores and existing education structures but with a historical perspective.
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
Cause for hope
This week, Student Achievement Partners—the group co-founded by Common Core architects David Coleman and Jason Zimba—announced a partnership with the NEA and AFT to develop and disseminate Core-aligned curriculum at no cost to teachers, thanks to a three
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The Effects of Texas’s Pre-Kindergarten Program on Academic Performance
Pre-K for the (right) people
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Our Responsibility, Our Promise: Transforming Educator Preparation and Entry into the Profession
The states take aim at ed schools
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Charter Schools
A D.C. panel comes to a sensible conclusion for charter schools
D.C. charter schools, the task force decided, should remain open to all comers in the city, but charters that move into closed district schools should voluntarily give admissions preference to children who live nearby
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Curriculum & Instruction
The Helmsley Charitable Trust grants $11 million for Common Core materials
In addition to being developed under the careful guidance of the lead authors of the standards themselves, SAP-developed resources will be open source and provided at no cost to teachers around the country
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Charter Schools
Should we care how much money charter school leaders make?
Executive compensation must be transparent and carefully considered.
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If you don’t come to work, you don’t get paid: Q& A with Andy Boy
The second of a seven part series that profiles some of Ohio's most dynamic and effective school leaders.
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Massive open online courses: An end to the traditional classroom?
The question may be when, not if, MOOCs put an end to traditional education.
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Stalled Start? Will a Drop in Proficiency Rates Derail the Common Core?
Forecasting proficiency rates under the PARCC Exams. Also, the Ohio Annual Report Card Analysis, 2011-12.