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Progress has a price
Faced with the need to cut staff, but prevented by last-in, first-out requirements from axing the lousiest educators, Newark is looking to follow NYC’s lead and pay its way out of the problem by buying out low-performing teachers with its Mark Zuckerberg-donated cash.
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Talking Common Core and human capital in the Gem City
The Common Core standards have the potential to help put Dayton, Ohio and the country on a path toward higher achievement.
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Future Shock: Early Common Core implementation lessons from Ohio
A new report from Fordham takes a look at Common Core implementation from the front lines.
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Charter Schools
Why unionized charters would be a setback for Ohio’s school improvement efforts
Would unionized charter schools be good for students?
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Charter Schools, Advanced Education
Accountability and perspective needed for drop-out recovery charters
Drop-out recovery charter schools annually serve about 20 percent of Ohio’s charter students but have never been held accountable for the performance of their students.
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Talking Common Core and human capital in the Gem City
The Common Core standards have the potential to help put Dayton, Ohio and the country on a path toward higher achievement.
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Major Accountability Themes of Second-Round State Applications for NCLB Waivers
A recent report by the Center on Education Policy (CEP) takes a look at the major accountability themes proposed by the 27 states in the second round, focusing on common themes among these states.
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Greenhouse Schools: How Schools Can Build Cultures Where Teachers and Students Thrive
The New Teacher Project's (TNTP) Greenhouse Schools considers the link between a school’s instructional culture and both teacher retention and student achievement.
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Creating a Comprehensive System for Evaluating and Supporting Effective Teaching
A report released by the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education advances the discussion about quality teacher evaluations and professional development.
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Put a ring on high achievement
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, higher income and education levels are linked to better health. Not only for adults (people with a high school degree or less are more likely to smoke than people with a post-secondary degree) but also for c
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Will economics increase school choice?
One of Columbus' suburban districts adopts an open enrollment policy.
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Charter Schools
Charter and catholic schools can coexist
Closing or limiting charter options will only further limit the options available to urban parents who desperately crave better choices for their children.
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Curriculum & Instruction
"Devil's in the details"
Ohio educators talk about the promise and challenges of implementing the Common Core.
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Implementation, implementation, implementation
The early lessons learned putting Common Core into practice.
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Charter Schools
Should suburban fears drive school choice policy?
Rick Hess is right: Suburbanites aren’t going to willingly erode the quality of their schools and the value of their homes. The question for the school choice movement is whether we should take such realities as a given.
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The other problem with LIFO
Guest blogger Rebecca Sibilia, director of fiscal strategy at StudentsFirst, explains how Last-in, First-Out policies hurt students by increasing the number of teachers laid off when budgets are cut.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Challenging the science status quo
Here’s hoping “next generation” also means “better”
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Scores are down but advocacy’s on the rise
Test scores plummeted on Florida’s eighth-grade writing test, prompting education officials to lower the standard for passing and opponents to crow about the fu
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Charter Schools
Zero Chance of Passage: The Pioneering Charter School Story
Ember Reichgott Junge: Present at the revolution
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“GASB Won't Let Me" - A False Objection to Public Pension Reform
Don’t kick the pension can down the road
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