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Certification Requirements and Teacher Quality: A Comparison of Alternative Routes to Teaching
Many paths to better teachers
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Stagnation, snobbery, and spending: another week in Washington
GOP Rep. John Kline’s ESEA reauthorization bills slipped out of the House Education and the Workforce Committee on a party-line vote, but will likely stall in their current state.
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Letter to the Editor
In response to Fordham's review of "The School Improvement Grant Roll Out in America’s Great City Schools"
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Ohio seeks waivers from federal education law
Ohio is one of 26 states, along with the District of Columbia that applied for a second-round waiver. If approved (and most observers believe it will be), what will the waiver mean for the Buckeye State?
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You can’t principal-proof a school: Why top down evaluation systems are doomed to fail
It’s time for education reformers to get out of the business of trying to improve the civil service rules of our broken education bureaucracies and get back into the business of empowering educators—including school leaders—to get results for kids.
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NPR’s “math guy” on video gaming as the future of math education
Is video gaming the future of math education?
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Purists vs. hawks in the charter debate
Ohio’s charter school community has been split into two camps since the inception of the state’s first charter law in 1997.
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More lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer for Ohio students?
A bill pending in the Ohio General Assembly would make it possible for students to spend far less time in school than they do now.
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Ohio seeks waivers from federal education law
Ohio is one of 26 states, along with the District of Columbia that applied for a second-round waiver. If approved (and most observers believe it will be), what will the waiver mean for the Buckeye State?
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State of State Science Standards 2012
Ohio came in 13th in the nation with an overall grade of B. While that is better than the majority of other states, it’s nothing to brag about.
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2011 State Teacher Policy Yearbook
Ohio ranked seventh in the nation with an overall grade of C+, beating the national grade of D+ by a whole letter grade.
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Announcement- Big changes are coming are you ready?
The Ohio Department of Education, along with the State Board of Education, The Ohio Educational Service Association, and the Ohio School Boards Association will host thirteen two-hour meetings across the state to outline the changes coming and what schools can be doing now to prepare.
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Charter Schools
State rejects White Hat applications
The rejection of the White Hat applications will come as a surprise to many observers because ODE has rarely challenged large, not to mention politically well-connected, operators.
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Charter Schools
Measuring up to the model: A ranking of state charter school laws
Regardless of rankings, Ohio policymakers should continue to seek improvements to Ohio’s charter school program.
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Charter Schools
Noble Charter Schools: A teacher's perspective
A learning specialist with Noble Charter Schools responds to criticism of the organization's controversial discipline policies.
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Stay out of the classroom, Your Honor
New Hampshire voters may tell the state Supreme Court to butt out of school funding entirely.
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The conspiracy theory in search of a conspiracy
Instead getting hung up on which government agency is making the rules, let's dig a little deeper into the question of red tape and find out exactly which ties are binding so firmly to mediocrity and entropy.
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Charter Schools
The “last word” on Milwaukee vouchers should lead us to new debates on standards
The results of a report show a need to further explore the right balance between parental choice and state standards, even if that discussion leaves many voucher proponents with a bad case of heartburn.
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Getting Common Core implementation right: the $16 billion question
The Pioneer Institute's prediction that the CCSS will require billions in professional development training is based on some shaky assumptions.
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Charter Schools
Purists vs. hawks in the charter debate
Ohio’s charter school community has been split into two camps since the inception of the state’s first charter law in 1997; purists vs. hawks.
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Charter Schools
ODE rejects White Hat applications
White Hat Management has been the Goliath of Ohio’s charter school operators since its first schools opened in 1999. The company currently operates 33 schools in the Buckeye State.
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More lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer for Ohio students?
A bill pending in the Ohio General Assembly would make it possible for students to spend far less time in school than they do now.
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Some optimism (and caution) on special education funding
New Jersey deserves praise for trying something new in a touchy, costly program area.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Memo to the world: America’s secret sauce isn’t made in our classrooms
Innovation is learned on the weekends
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The 2012 Brown Center Report on American Education: How Well Are American Students Learning?
Close reading required
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