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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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Charter Schools
Time to focus on the other half of the charter-authorizer marriage
What is the nature of the relationship between a charter school authorizer and a charter school board?
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Rigorous national standards: necessary but not sufficient
Checker's contribution to a recent Wall Street Journal debate with Jay P. Greene.
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Charter Schools
Education gets its day in court
Healthcare stole the show, but don’t forget that the Supreme Court handed down a decision this session with education implications.
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Charter Schools
Improving Charter School Accountability: The Challenge of Closing Failing Schools
Charter authorizers: No longer taken for granted
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Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World
Koala dads: You’re gonna love this
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The Inclusion of Students With Disabilities in School Accountability Systems: Interim Report
A case for super-subgroups
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Charter Schools
Authorizers matter, in Ohio and across the nation
Terry Ryan on the importance of charter authorizers
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In search of the elusive reform-minded school-board member
A look back at my time on a board of education.
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Charter school authorizers matter
A look at David Osborne's latest paper, “Improving Charter School Accountability: The Challenge of Closing Failing Schools.”
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Curriculum & Instruction
Does the Common Core overcomplicate text selection?
The guidance that’s starting to emerge about how teachers can best select “grade-appropriate” texts may actually end up undermining the Common Core’s emphasis on improving the quality and rigor of the texts students are reading.
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Charter Schools
A different case for social justice in special education
There has been a lot of hand-wringing in the last week about whether charter schools are doing enough to enroll students with disabilities. But are we looking closely at who is among the learning disabled?
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All-white schools and achievement gap accountability
Ohio plans to award accountability points to all- or mostly-White schools for narrowing racial achievement gaps
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Teacher evaluations in New York: a compromise or a cave-in?
We remain a long way from getting our children the kind of educational protection that even restaurant patrons receive—not a healthy illustration of our public priorities.
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Curriculum & Instruction
How top-down policies undermine instruction and feed the testing and accountability backlash
The autonomy agenda matters
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Inaugural class of Ohio Kippsters takes the next step toward college
Sixty-four eighth graders graduated from KIPP and will matriculate to some of the area’s best high schools.
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Charter Schools
Highlights from Fordham-sponsored charter schools (2011-12)
A look back at Fordham sponsored schools for the 2011-12 school year
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Spending patterns, and levy considerations, in Columbus City Schools
Columbus City Schools are on the path to putting a property-tax levy on the November ballot (though it’s not a done deal; a citizen’s advisory committee will make its recommendation regarding a levy to district leaders next week and an official decision will follow).