The Futures of School Reform

An ed-policy defibrillator

Sandy Hook and school reform

The sorrow remains, but the work goes on

Our Responsibility, Our Promise: Transforming Educator Preparation and Entry into the Profession

The states take aim at ed 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

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

Should we care how much money charter school leaders make?

Executive compensation must be transparent and carefully considered.

What next? Ohio’s education policy agenda in 2013

A review of 2012 and a look ahead at 2013

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.

Massive open online courses: An end to the traditional classroom?

The question may be when, not if, MOOCs put an end to traditional education.

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.

Fordham Ohio’s 2012 publications

Get your 2012 Fordham Ohio reports here!

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.

Apples and innovation

Bits and bites of education news from Ohio.

Sandy Hook is an outstanding school

There is very little to be added to what's already been said about Friday's horrendous murders at Sandy Hook Elementary School—President Obama has eloquently expressed the

Should we care how much money charter school leaders make?

Highly effective superintendents and charter school operators deserve to be paid well, but 'how much is too much’ is a question school boards have to grapple with as they also have to help make the case for school levies every couple of years

The weak critique of Common Core’s approach to great literature

Denizens of the anti-Common Core fever swamps, by misinterpreting the NAEP assessment framework, become a case-in-point for teaching informational texts

On voucher transparency, Rick Scott is right

Governor Rick Scott has garnered attention for suggesting that all schools receiving public funding, including private schools accepting voucher-bearing students, be held to Common Core standards

A primer on right-to-work and collective bargaining in education

Welcome to Michigan

The costs of action and inaction

Everyone and their mothers are talking about the so-called “fiscal cliff”—the automatic budget cuts and tax increases that will affect all federal discretionary spending programs, cut you off in traffic, steal an old lady’s handbag, and wreak general havoc if lawmakers don’t co

The Education Choice and Competition Index: Background and Results 2012

New Orleans sets the pace

Inequality for All: The Challenge of Unequal Opportunity in American Schools

Another case for the Common Core

Youth and Hard Work: Restoring Teen and Young Adult Connections to Opportunity

The multiple-pathways approach

Closing the reading gap with vocabulary and content

While there are achievement gaps between low-income and affluent students across content areas, none seem more vexing to close than the reading gap

In ranking choice, little differences add up to big change

The Brookings Institution's second Education Choice and Competition Index released yesterday

Marco Rubio floats a federal tax credit scholarship

Despite its popularity, however, there is a reason that a program like this is controversial: A tax credit scholarship is tantamount to a voucher.

Reese’s cups, cars, and college

NPR discusses high-finance with kids from Village Prep, a Fordham-sponsored charter

A judge decides what “public education” is in Louisiana

And the public loses

Meltdown in the Motor City

Hope fades for Detroit’s kids

Compromising one minute, angling the next

Strength in Numbers: State Spending on K-12 Assessment Systems

The right kind of collaboration