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Strife and Progress: Portfolio Strategies for Managing Urban Schools
A crash course in portfolio management
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Multiple-Choice Tests Exonerated, At Least Some of the Charges: Forgetting Test-Induced Learning and Avoiding Test-Induced Forgetting
How I stopped worrying and learned to love the multiple-choice test
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Curriculum & Instruction
Mike Petrilli's testimony on Indiana and the Common Core
Today, Indiana’s Senate Education Committee heard arguments on whether to keep, eliminate, or change the state’s commitment to the Common Core
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On needles, special sauces, and spit
School leaders from Stivers School for the Arts and DECA discuss what makes their schools special
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Charter Schools
The threat of the parent trigger and the change it begets
There is a reason why, after months of resistance, the Adelanto School Board this week voted unanimously to adopt the parent-triggered charter conversion of Desert Trails Elementary: It’s not the same board
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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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Beyond Needles: What do we know about Ohio's high-performing schools?
Our latest Needles report adds to the evidence that strong schools require leadership, healthy school culture, and high expectations.
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
Reforms, shots, and brawls
Achieve released the second draft of the Next Generation Science Standards this week.
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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