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Experts provide Ohio lawmakers with guidance on improving school funding and performance
Eric Hanushek, Marguerite Roza, and Frederick Hess testify before Ohio House and Senate finance committees
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School leader profile: Dr. Glenda Brown
Born in Alabama, Dr. Brown now leads one of Cincinnati's highest performing charter schools. Our Q&A with Dr. Brown.
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Charter Schools
Changing One Million Lives
NACSA's call for states to be more proactive in closing failing charter schools and opening great new ones.
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Fordham supports HB 555
Terry Ryan testifies before Ohio Senate, in favor of school accountability overhaul.
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Fordham mobility report makes news
Buckeye State newspapers spotlight student mobility in their neck of the woods.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Getting Down to Dollars and Cents: What Do School Districts Spend to Deliver Student-Centered Learning?
What is student-centered learning -- and does it cost more?
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Strength in Numbers: State Spending in K-12 Assessment Systems
How much does Ohio spend on its assessments?
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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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Will Common Core implementation face more resistence in high schools?
A decades-old Rand Corporation report suggests high school implementation may be difficult