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School Improvement Grants 2010-2011: The School Improvement Grant Roll Out in America’s Great City Schools
Hard evidence of success: still lacking
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Rating performance—for teachers, students, and schools—is a tricky business
The week's education news at a glance
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Rating performance is a tricky business
» As Bill Gates opined in this morning’s New York Times, education discourse is better off—and comity about needed reforms somewhat more likely—without teachers’ test scores plastered on front-pages, where legitimate caveats about margins of error and sample sizes are like
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Bring on the independent validators–just kidding.
A new method for evaluating New York City's teachers is unlikely to do much more than sew more seeds of dissent.
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What would George, TJ, Abe, Teddy, Ike, and the gang say?
In this Presidents' Day post, Peter analyzes four recent education stories.
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Cleveland challenging Indy to become the Midwest’s ed-reform capital
Last month I led a delegation of education-reform advocates from the Ohio cities of Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, and Dayton to spend a day with leaders of The Mind Trust, an education reform nonprofit that is paving the way for transformative change in K-12 education in Indianapolis.
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No love for Common Core? Why Tom misses the mark with his critique
Standards—no matter how clear or how rigorous—are not a panacea.
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Utah should go big
The Utah legislature is considering a promising move toward student-based state funding of secondary education.
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Embracing the Common Core in the Buckeye State
Yesterday the Fordham Institute, Ohio Grantmakers Forum, and Achieve hosted “Embracing the Common Core: Helping Students Thrive” in Columbus.
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Responding to Diane Ravitch's drive-by shooting of Cleveland’s school-reform plan
Terry Ryan takes on Diane Ravitch's blog from earlier this week on "Desperate Times in Cleveland and Ohio" and points out everything she got wrong.
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10 steps to overcoming governance obstacles in K-12 online learning
Digital learning demands we change the rules
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In Indianapolis, district overhaul needed to accelerate change
The Super Bowl’s over; now the real game begins
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Estimating the Effect of Leaders on Public Sector Productivity: The Case of School Principals
Slowly peeling back the layers
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Charter Schools
Adam explains voucher cuts on WSJ.com
Choice czar Adam Emerson recorded an interview with the Wall Street Journal on President Obama's proposed cuts to the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program.
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The poverty myth persists
Want a convenient scapegoat for our education problems? Poverty. It’s there, it’s handy.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Send in the clowns: Common Core implementation advice just keeps getting worse
When it comes to organizations peddling Common Core implementation resources and strategies, the buyer should beware.
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Attention principals: use your flexibility
A new study shows that, given with more flexibility, principals still mostly don't fire anybody.
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Charter Schools
A bill targets the charter inequities wrought by political compromise
Allowing local dollars to follow local students is an important first step in addressing unfair funding systems.
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Charter Schools
Obama turns his back on a deal for the D.C. voucher program
The president's new budget proposal quashes last year's compromise to resurrect the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program.
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States’ rights: a slippery slope back to mediocrity?
Why the Koret Task Force's recommendations for the federal role in education have the edge over Rep. John Kline's most recent ESEA proposals.
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Education malfeasance: the “reading to learn” myth
The problem with our current approach to teaching literacy.
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I come not to bury summative assessments but to praise them
summative assessments, formative assessments
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Charter Schools
The fight over mandated contraceptive services has lessons for school choice
The struggles between the Catholic Church and the Obama Administration reveal the fault lines that surface when Washington tries to tinker with the complex machinery that administers our health, social services...and education.
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Charter Schools
Turning on a successful charter in the Keystone State
Charters are the answer, not the enemy.
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Choice and Federalism: Defining the Federal Role in Education
Break the ESEA stalemate