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Curriculum & Instruction
3 lessons about curriculum and state Common Core implementation
Selecting the right curriculum—one that artfully balances content and rigor and that gives teachers a clear instructional roadmap—is critical to driving student learning
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Charter Schools
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: The Edison Story in Dayton
The trials and tribulations of one Fordham-sponsored charter school
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Charter Schools
Moving Up: Fordham Sponsorship and Accountability Report, 2011-12
Annual report on Fordham-sponsored charter schools, with Ellen Belcher's article, "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: The Edison Story in Dayton."
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Student Nomads: Mobility in Ohio's Schools makes headlines
A recap of press coverage about Fordham's latest report on student mobility
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Educators and experts discuss Fordham's student mobility report
Columbus education leaders gather to talk about student mobility
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Charter Schools
Finally, charter schools in Washington
Six days after election day, 50.81 percent voters in the Evergreen State finally said yes to charter schools, after having said no three times before.
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Charter Schools
Sign up for the Charters and Choice Digest
The Charters & Choice Digest will guide readers through the triumphs, the quarrels, and the political foibles that accompany the growth of school choice and charter schools—and no cows will ever be sacred.
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Charter Schools
Don’t claim victory in Michigan yet
Why Michiganders repeal of the state's emergency-management law is a serious setback to education in the state
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Student mobility: Problem, solution, or just plain reality?
What were the takeaways? What are the key questions moving forward?
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Student nomads: Mobility in Ohio's schools
The magnitude and scale of student mobility is greater than typically appreciated.
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Charter Schools
Voters making education more local
Charter school supporters can claim victory in at least one high-profile ballot initiative (Georgia) and perhaps one other (Washington) but each state has a different story to tell—and lessons to teach.
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Charter Schools
Sorry, Dr. Ravitch, but voucher transparency still exists in Wisconsin
Correcting Diane Ravitch's mischaracterization of new Wisconsin voucher legislation.
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Education recovers from elections and super storms
Hurricane Sandy temporarily shuttered 198 school districts in New York City and more than 300 in New Jersey last week, amounting to what Education Week
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Curriculum & Instruction
2 years, 5 months & 4 days in the life of … Common Core
Tennessee has been quietly developing what might be the most thoughtful, cohesive, and outcome-driven state CCSS implementation plan in the nation.
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Congratulations!
A hearty congrats to Mayor Frank Jackson and his staff, Cleveland Metropolitan School District CEO Eric Gordon, the city’s business community, district supporters, teachers, students, and the voters of Cleveland on the passage of the district’s levy
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Charter Schools
Better oversight could have weeded out a charter school scandal
The real lesson from a Florida charter school principal's $519,000 golden parachute
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Unionized teacher salaries
A local example of how highly-paid unionized teachers--relative their non-union peers and their local community--provide little benefit in return.
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Transparency and charter autonomy are worth the hiccups
An Idaho judge ruled this week that the nonprofit behind $200,000-worth of ads backing state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna’s education reforms
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The Resegregation of Suburban Schools: A Hidden Crisis in American Education
Demographically challenged
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