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Ohio's school rating overhaul
Replace the currently nebulous school and district ratings with readily understood A-F grades.
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Charter Schools
A call for quality charters
The NACSA's Parker Baxter on charter accountability and the "One Million Lives" campaign
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Charter Schools
Judge decides what “public education” is in Louisiana, and the public loses
According to Judge Timothy Kelley, the state was wrong to fund its new voucher program by the same revenue stream that provides a “minimum foundation” to its public elementary and secondary schools.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Inequality for All: The Challenge of Unequal Opportunity in American Schools
This wonky but important (and exceptionally timely) book by Schmidt and McKnight is a distinctive, deeply researched, and amply documented plea for full-scale implementation of the Common Core math standards
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Michigan looks to unbundle public education
Michigan governor Rick Snyder is proposing is perhaps more transformative than what any of his peers have so far established in statute--but he can't generate national buzz
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Meet Ohio's Superintendent of Year
The Buckeye Association of School Administrators names West Carrollton's Rusty Clifford as Ohio's Superintendent of the Year for 2013
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Here's to optimism
On Monday, the U.S. Department of Education announced sixty-one finalists in its Race to the Top–District competition.
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Charter Schools
Think before you write special-education quotas into charter law
CRPE argues a statewide difference in charter and district special-education enrollments is too simplistic of a comparison
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Curriculum & Instruction
How the nonfiction backlash could derail Common Core ELA implementation
Nowhere do the CCSS “mandate” the percent of time ELA teachers need to spend on nonfiction
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Charter Schools
Tough scrutiny for the D.C. voucher program, but it deserves the attention
By embracing some modest measures of standards and accountability, the D.C. program might set in motion effects that could ripple beyond its boundaries
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Hurrah for ALEC
After due deliberation, this past weekend ALEC's "Legislative Board of Directors" voted to remain neutral on the issue, thereby not pressuring its members and states in either direction.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Will Common Core implementation face more resistence in high schools?
A decades-old Rand Corporation report suggests high school implementation may be difficult
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Charter Schools
Diverse schools and student nomads
Terry Ryan writes about student nomads, picky parents, and feelings of cognitive dissonance
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Charter Schools
Picky parents, Nomad Mary, and feelings of cognitive dissonance
The different dilemmas facing choosy parents and struggling parents
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Charter Schools
It’s the most wonderful time of the year!
And Smarick is excited about the release of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools’ annual “Market Share” report, which shows the percentage of students in major cities that are educated by charters
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The student mobility network for one Cincinnati Public school
Understanding patterns of student mobility can help districts improve
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Charter Schools
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: The Edison Story in Dayton
The trials and tribulations of a Fordham-sponsored charter school.
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Charter Schools
Local taxpayers say yes to charter schools
All politics, and some revenues, are local
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Charter Schools
Of choices, truants, and taxi medallions
Six days after the election, and by a miniscule margin, Washington State became the
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Charter Schools
The Urban School System of the Future: Applying the Prinicples and Lessons of Chartering
Bravely voyaging to a new world
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Charter Schools
School Choice and School Accountability: Evidence from a Private Voucher Program in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
A symbiotic relationship