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Speaking truth to power
Guest blogger Melanie Kurdys reflects on her experience on a school board in the latest installment of the Board's Eye View Challenge
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Weighted-student funding can work for Michigan
Why Michigan should support Governor Rick Snyder's efforts to reform school funding
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Failing to learn the lessons of success
Why South Carolina must look to Louisiana's Recovery School District.
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Fair fight? When a religious group takes over a public school system
Local control, special interests, and the East Ramapo, New York schools
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Blended learning: innovating the teaching process
Fordham welcomes Anthony Kim, blended learning pioneer, to Ohio
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Curriculum & Instruction
Assignment desk: CCSS Math curriculum rankings
The golden opportunity provided by the “K-8 Publishers Criteria for the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics.”
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Curriculum & Instruction
Twenty-first-century skills, part II: What would Ben Franklin say?
Who better to speak to contemporary American youth than one of the nation’s most prolific inventors and entrepreneurs?
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Charter Schools
The Louisiana teacher union employs a shameful tactic to stop school vouchers
The Louisiana teachers union can’t get the courts to stop private schools from enrolling voucher-bearing students this fall, so they’ve taken to threatening the schools with litigation.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Will Common Core revive content-driven instruction?
If it happens, thank E.D. Hirsch
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Achievement Growth: International and U.S. State Trends in Student Performance
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you
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The Sheepskin Effect and Student Achievement: Deemphasizing the Role of Master’s Degrees in Teacher Compensation
The wrong way to “differentiate” teacher pay
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Pulling parent triggers: easier said than done
The good guys won the latest round of the interminable saga of the Adelanto parent-trigger case when a California judge
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Curriculum & Instruction
Will Common Core usher in a return to content-driven instruction?
Will the few critical but passing phrases that link the Common Core ELA standards to a content-rich curriculum be enough to drive instructional changes our students so desperately need?
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Redesign the whole thing, from scratch
Guest blogger Dee Selvaggi takes the Board's Eye View Challenge and describes her insights from two decades of involvement with local school boards.
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Business leaders rally around the Common Core
States must move forward with the Common Core, and that business must be a key champion for the effort
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Charter Schools
Charter performance in Ohio, Part 1: The Economist calls out Ohio charters
Ohio charters are gaining an international reputation—but not for the best of reasons.
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Charter Schools
Charter performance in Ohio, Part 2: How do charters fare? Depends on the standard
Have Cleveland’s charters “done badly?” Depends on your standard.
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Ohio schools wading cautiously into teacher-evaluation waters
Nuances or none, all Ohio schools will soon move towards teacher evaluations.
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Report of the state budget crisis task force
The Buckeye State rang in the 2011 New Year with a grand total of 89 cents in its rainy day fund
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Charter Schools
Fulfilling the Compact: Building a Breakthrough, Results- Driven Public Charter School Sector
The charter sector has come a long way and its successes are worth celebrating, yet as this report demonstrates multiple challenges still remain
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Order Up! Reform at the lunch line
The Marietta Family YMCA is getting children excited about fruits and veggies, according to The Marietta Times. Trying new, healthy foods is just one aspect of the Fit Kids program, which includes discussions on portion sizes and doing fun exercises.
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EVENT: Ten Years After NCLB: Is the GOP Moving Forward, Backward, or Sideways on Education?
A decade after the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act, the GOP stance on education, and particularly federal education policy, is clearly shifting. But in any clear direction? And for the better? To examine those questions, the Fordham Institute will bring together two former GOP education secretaries to debate the Republican Party’s direction on this vital issue.
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Charter Schools
Private school choice AND quality control
Louisiana has shown us that it’s possible to offer private-school choice and control for quality in a way that doesn’t cramp what makes a private school unique.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Twenty-first century skills and poverty: Try Thucydides, Socrates, and Kant
The power of the humanities
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The improvement buck stops with the board of ed
Guest blogger Gene Maeroff takes the Board's Eye View challenge and provides insights from his time on a local school board.
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