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Business leaders rally around Common Core
Why business leaders must be a key champion for the Common Core
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Complacency and false promises—we can’t afford either
The Obama administration would like to spend $1 billion to improve STEM education
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Pursuing the American Dream: Economic Mobility Across Generations
The good news: Almost everyone’s upwardly mobile
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Pieces of the Puzzle: Factors in Improving Achievement of Urban School Districts
They’re onto something here
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Special Reports on School Improvement Grants
Another day, another report on SIG…and another CEP survey
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Charter Schools
An Accident of History: Breaking the District Monopoly on Public School Facilities
It’s time for some trust-busting
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Ohio wading cautiously into teacher-evaluation waters
Several Ohio districts will be piloting teacher evaluation systems this fall
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The mobility dilemma: Have we lost faith in the power of knowledge?
Schools (should) still matter.
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Charter Schools
How do charters do? Depends on the standard
It matters to whom charters are compared
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Charter Schools
Voucher transparency in the Hoosier State
States like Louisiana could learn a lesson from Indiana's approach to reporting performance.
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Smart federalism + real choice = the way forward
The Koret Task Force on K-12 Education's road map to a better system of education governance.
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Charter Schools
To whom do the schools belong?
Charter schools may be celebrating twenty years of existence, but the milestone gets most of them no closer to the surplus classroom space and facility financing controlled by local school boards.
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The false promise of “field testing” standards
Suggesting that we “field test” Common Core betrays a fundamental misunderstanding about what standards are and what they are not.
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Charter Schools
A single-sex school for Prince Hal
One more valuable option for students and parents
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School-Based Accountability and the Distribution of Teacher Quality Among Grades in Elementary School
How the elementary-teacher-cookie crumbles
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Forget school: Summer break is what’s too easy
While art, music, and history tend to get the headlines when they’re pushed out in favor of more math and reading instruction, the
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The end of governance geography: Hess and Meeks point the way to the Promised Land
Understanding the nature of the problem is the first step to fixing it.
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Charter Schools
Friedman Foundation calls for research proposals
The folks at the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice have put out a call for research proposals that explore the effects that choice and competition have on K-12 education.
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Charter Schools
The Economist calls out Ohio charters
Ohio charters have earned a global reputation.
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Charter Schools
An unfair contest: charter school athletics
Despite persistent hostility to charter school expansion in most states, there remains one aspect of charter schooling that fails to get the attention it deserves: athletics.
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Cut obstacles to transparency, not Kindergarten
Improved transparency and fiscal accountability in Pennsylvania will help ensure parents can continue to send their kids to Kindergarten.
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Charter Schools
Unchecked and unbalanced in North Carolina
Lazy governance hurts charter innovation.
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