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I know you are, but what am I?
Unfettered by karmic pronouncements, Rick Santorum has already begun designing lesson plans for
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Curriculum & Instruction
Courage, instruction, and being open to the changes the Common Core demands
Resistance among teachers to changing their instruction poses a serious challenge to Common Core implementation.
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Soldiers in the fight for social justice
Louisiana Superintendent of Education John White explains the place of poverty in discussions about education.
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73 percent of teachers think they are prepared to teach the Common Core, and other facts that should keep CCSS supporters up at night
While the quick adoption of Common Core by 46 states was cheered by those who had been pushing for common standards for decades, the more jaded among us wondered: Do most states really understand what they signed up for?
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Doing “more with less” demands partners, K-12 sector is finding them
Fewer state tax dollars for Ohio’s local governments and schools have public administrators talking, in the light of day no less, about mergers and shared services.
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Making sausage: the work of school board associations
The NYSSBA is not wrong about the need to shake the barnacles off the bureaucracy.
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Two education gems in the Gem City
We are pleased to be featuring two Dayton outstanding high schools in an upcoming report looking at high-performing, high-poverty highschools: Dayton Early College Academy (a charter school) and Stivers Schools for the Arts (a district-operated magnet school).
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Doing “more with less” demands partners, K-12 sector is finding them
Fewer state tax dollars for Ohio’s local governments and schools have public administrators talking, in the light of day no less, about mergers and shared services.
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Strange political bedfellows coming together around Cleveland’s school-reform efforts
The bold Jackson Plan is bringing together strange political bedfellows.
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Governor Kasich’s mid-biennium education proposals focus on performance, transparency
In a nutshell, it is fair to say that all of the governor’s major education proposals are aimed at making sure everyone – educators, parents, and the public – has a clearer and more accurate understanding of how well Ohio’s schools are doing in preparing students for college and the workforce.
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Praise, caution for Harrison pay-for-performance plan
The Harrison (CO) School District’s compensation plan, profiled in a recent Fordham report, represents another of yet a few compensation plans that totally redesign the actual teacher salary schedule.
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Ohio’s “dropout factories”
In 2009, 135 Ohio high schools were identified as “dropout factories” – schools that fail to graduate more than 60 percent of their students on time.
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Two education gems in the Gem City
Two outstanding high schools will be featured in a report looking at high-performing, high-poverty high schools: Dayton Early College Academy (a charter school) and Stivers Schools for the Arts (a district-operated magnet school).
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Primary Sources: 2012 America’s Teachers on the Teaching Profession
Ever wonder what teachers think about issues such as student and teacher performance and how teachers should be evaluated, rewarded, and supported?
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U.S. Education Reform and National Security
The claim that our nation’s schools too often fail to educate enough students to high levels of achievement is a bit of a broken record.
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Move over banned books and birthdays, Will.i.am just entered the (education reform) arena
Birthdays, dinosaurs, and other potentially frightening or exclusive topics are now banned from NYC tests. AT&T Aspire, specifically launched to confron
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Charter Schools
Fear and loathing, from the school board to the statehouse
The mainstream resistance to school choice is increasingly characterizing the education reform debate as students versus profits.
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Charter Schools
Placing boundaries on what is boundless
The Evergreen Education Group gives us more evidence that districts may be unwilling to give up their authority over online learning easily.
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Charter Schools
Strange political bedfellows coming together around Cleveland’s school-reform efforts
As bold as Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson's plan is, even more audacious is the political coalition that seems to be coalescing around it.
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The top governance challenge in US education: online learning
John Chubb asks if local boards should continue to control student access to instruction on the Internet.
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Missing the mark on evolution
Don’t miss Paul Gross’s latest piece on the neglect of evolution in state science standards.
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Charter Schools
Accountability and voucher politics in the Pelican State
Governor Bobby Jindal’s school voucher proposal for Louisiana has been dragged into the familiar politics of parental choice.
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Bush saves Romney from Etch A Sketch hell!
The former Florida governor is still hard at work reforming education.
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Better Schools Through Better Politics: The Human Side of Portfolio School District Reform
School closures get a little easier to handle
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Charter Schools
The Future of School Integration: Socioeconomic Diversity as an Education Reform Strategy
The Left likes choice—just not too much choice
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Philadelphia’s Renaissance Schools Initiative: 18 Month Interim Report <em>and</em> Turning Around Low-Performing Schools in Chicago
Finally some student-achievement data on turnarounds
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From SIG to surveys, a little skepticism is in order
Arne Duncan was only missing a "Mission Accomplished" banner on Monday when he announced that the Administration’s