Pop quiz: Which school district is farthest ahead in designing and implementing a workable teacher evaluation system? Washington, DC, with its IMPACT system? Denver, Colorado, with PRO-COMP? You’re getting warmer…
Congratulations to KIPP: Journey Academy for the school’s EPIC Silver Gain Award from New Leaders for New Schools.
How much impact does SES have on student achievement?
Ohio's proposed new A-F rating system coming as a shock to many
The Richard Allen Academy Schools Audit highlights, yet again, the need for Ohio statute to clarify the roles and duties of school governing boards, school operators, and school sponsors (aka authorizers).
If Florida Governor Rick Scott signs the state’s digital learning bill, as expected, students in grades K-5 then could bypass a brick-and-mortar school and directly enroll full-time in a virtual instruction program.
If we prize social mobility fostered by accessible higher education, we need good options that are affordable, not a race to spend more dollars without regard to quality of outcomes.
Guest blogger Neerav Kingland, chief strategy officer at New Schools for New Orleans, discusses the education lessons to be gleaned from the transition away from communism in Europe.
Choice Words has developed some legislative guidance for more informative inquiry on the parent trigger.
What this study tells us is that schools matter. And they matter in very old-fashioned ways: as institutions of learning.
Teaching is neither an art nor a science. It's magic—and magic takes a lot of hard work to pull off.
Yesterday we wrote about Ohio’s recent waiver application to the U.S.
Congratulations to KIPP: Journey Academy on winning the EPIC Silver Gain Award!
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
School leaders need help from policymakers to improve the availability of affordable space for teaching and learning, and to plug schools into revitalized neighborhoods.
An analysis of how Buckeye State schools would fare under the grading system proposed in Ohio's NCLB waiver application.
A social sector solution to the "capacity" conundrum
I can’t get no…satisfaction
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
