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The race card: making sense of the Duncan discipline report
What this study tells us is that schools matter. And they matter in very old-fashioned ways: as institutions of learning.
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Practical advice on magical teaching
Teaching is neither an art nor a science. It's magic—and magic takes a lot of hard work to pull off.
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Ohio’s new school rating system already shocking many
Yesterday we wrote about Ohio’s recent waiver application to the U.S.
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Charter Schools
Fordham-sponsored KIPP: Journey Academy Wins EPIC Silver Gain Award
Congratulations to KIPP: Journey Academy on winning the EPIC Silver Gain Award!
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Charter Schools
McKay is OK, but with accountability it would be great
Florida's McKay Scholarships for Students with Disabilities program should reestablish its status as a pioneer by embracing a reasonable form of results-based accountability
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Charter Schools
Charter schools and the new urbanism
School leaders need help from policymakers to improve the availability of affordable space for teaching and learning, and to plug schools into revitalized neighborhoods.
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Ohio’s new school rating system could come as a shock to many
An analysis of how Buckeye State schools would fare under the grading system proposed in Ohio's NCLB waiver application.
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Charter Schools
Do we need a “virtual” education ministry?
A social sector solution to the "capacity" conundrum
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MetLife Survey of the American Teacher: Teachers, Parents and the Economy
I can’t get no…satisfaction
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Teacher eval data, part 2: the perfectionist disease
The new teacher evaluation system in New York is far from perfect. But it is necessary. And it is best to have the debate in public—at least until we have a system that proves itself capable of providing good education from behind closed doors.
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Teach For America finally comes to Ohio
This is surely a good day for education and the children of the Buckeye State who will benefit from the passion, smarts, dedication and expertise of TFA corp members.
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Education First provides Common Core rubric and state implementation tool
The new report is an important addition to the Common Core conversation that deserves a careful read by state policymakers looking for guidance while developing their implementation plans.
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Charter Schools
Charter schools’ self-dealing hurts kids and needs attention
Fordham has worked in Dayton – as a funder, charter-school authorizer, and charter-school advocate – to push for the creation and growth of high quality charter schools since 1998.
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Untie teachers' hands on ed tech
Classrooms are increasingly being left behind as the rest of American life benefits from substantial improvements in service delivery—enabled not only by new technology but by flexible organizational structures and nimble financing.
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Charter Schools
A Sunshine State trigger needs more sunshine
By limiting debate on a polarizing parent trigger bill, the Florida Legislature is only going to sow the same confusion that has frustrated Californians.
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Teacher eval data, part 1: the public’s right to know
It is more important to air the opinions of the many than to sequester them behind closed doors monitored by the few.
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Charter Schools
A “war” that leaves one side well outgunned
It’s almost become flippant for Democratic lawmakers to disparage a school voucher as “a war on public education,” but a look at the numbers shows the conflict is pretty one-sided.
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Measuring poverty, one chicken nugget at a time
Is the number of free and reduced-price lunch participants really an accurate proxy for the number of poor kids in America’s schools?
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NPR’s “math guy” on video gaming as the future of math education
The only issue more worrisome than the agonizingly slow improvement in the math achievement of American students is what to do about it.
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National Cost of Aligning States and Localities to the Common Core Standards
The $16 billion-dollar question
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