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.
The Pioneer Institute's prediction that the CCSS will require billions in professional development training is based on some shaky assumptions.
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.
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.
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.
New Jersey deserves praise for trying something new in a touchy, costly program area.
Innovation is learned on the weekends
Close reading required
Hard evidence of success: still lacking
The week's education news at a glance
» 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
A new method for evaluating New York City's teachers is unlikely to do much more than sew more seeds of dissent.
In this Presidents' Day post, Peter analyzes four recent education stories.
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.
Standards—no matter how clear or how rigorous—are not a panacea.
The Utah legislature is considering a promising move toward student-based state funding of secondary education.
Yesterday the Fordham Institute, Ohio Grantmakers Forum, and Achieve hosted “Embracing the Common Core: Helping Students Thrive” in Columbus.
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.
Digital learning demands we change the rules
The Super Bowl’s over; now the real game begins
Slowly peeling back the layers
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.
Want a convenient scapegoat for our education problems? Poverty. It’s there, it’s handy.
When it comes to organizations peddling Common Core implementation resources and strategies, the buyer should beware.
