By limiting debate on a polarizing parent trigger bill, the Florida Legislature is only going to sow the same confusion that has frustrated Californians.
It is more important to air the opinions of the many than to sequester them behind closed doors monitored by the few.
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.
Is the number of free and reduced-price lunch participants really an accurate proxy for the number of poor kids in America’s schools?
The only issue more worrisome than the agonizingly slow improvement in the math achievement of American students is what to do about it.
The $16 billion-dollar question
Many paths to better teachers
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.
In response to Fordham's review of "The School Improvement Grant Roll Out in America’s Great City Schools"
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?
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.
Is video gaming the future of math education?
Ohio’s charter school community has been split into two camps since the inception of the state’s first charter law in 1997.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Regardless of rankings, Ohio policymakers should continue to seek improvements to Ohio’s charter school program.
Ohio ranked seventh in the nation with an overall grade of C+, beating the national grade of D+ by a whole letter grade.
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.
A learning specialist with Noble Charter Schools responds to criticism of the organization's controversial discipline policies.
New Hampshire voters may tell the state Supreme Court to butt out of school funding entirely.
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.
