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We now return to our regularly scheduled programming
Sunday’s surprise move by the Chicago Teachers Union to keep kids locked out of class for an extra two days as delegates deliberated over a contract they would soon accept seemed gratuito
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
Show ponies and workhorses
While the education show goes on in Chicago, Ohio's workhorses plow ahead
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Charter Schools
L.A. school board considers an irresponsible—and illegal—charter moratorium
A plea for common sense
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Charter Schools
Systems over substance: Why top-down teacher evaluation reforms are unlikely to boost student achievement
Where education reform has lost its way
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Charter Schools
Chicago union chief shows some panic over charters
CTU President Karen Lewis took aim at the city’s charter schools, and it’s not surprising.
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The evaluation system at the heart of the Chicago strike
The CPS proposal is more thoughtfully crafted and balanced than the rhetoric suggests
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Charter Schools
A preposterous critique of the Brookings voucher study
NEPC misses the mark in its review of Matt Chingos and Paul Peterson's research
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How Should School Districts Shape Teacher Salary Schedules? Linking School Performance to Pay Structure in Traditional Compensation Schemes
A case against "age before beauty"
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First Degree Earns: The Impact of College Quality on College Completion Rates
Empirically proving what we've known all along
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Charter Schools
There's news outside Chicago?
Los Angeles charter-school advocates are questioning the legality of a proposed moratoriu
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Curriculum & Instruction
Here's one of the great things Portland Public Schools is focusing on instead of the Three R's
Peanut-butter sandwiches, drum circles, and where education took a wrong turn
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Charter Schools
Repeat after me: Charters offer parents choices
Voucher-movement leaders have found purpose in the notion that parents know what is best for their children. The charter movement can learn from that, and the Chicago strike has made that lesson relevant.
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Ohio's "attendancegate": The innocent are being harmed
The longer Ohio's data scandal lingers on, the more innocent schools and educators suffer.
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The crowd out effect of special education
Each additional dollar a district spends on special education may mean one less dollar for general education
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Three common-sense ideas for improving special education in Ohio
Can special education be done better while controlling spending?
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Recent State Action on Teacher Effectiveness: What's in State Laws and Regulations?
DC-based Bellwether Education Partners examines policies that took major legislative action in teacher effectiveness
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Curriculum & Instruction
Is Retaining Students in Early Grades Self-Defeating?
The pros and cons of state policies that require retention of third-grade students
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Curriculum & Instruction
Big Data for Education: Data Mining, Data Analytics, and Web Dashboards
An IBM-style question to schools: what are you doing to utilize data to improve performance?
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Pupils, plans, and productive partnerships
Two Cincinnati schools have put Ohio in the spotlight this month, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports. Footage of John P.
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Ohio's attendancegate: Even the innocent are being harmed
The consequences of Ohio's data scandal extend beyond the perpetrators
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