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Teachers: can’t live with em, can’t live without ‘em
Teacher evaluation is a contentious subject around the country, but D.C. has made real progress.
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Welcome to the new Ohio Gadfly Daily!
Welcome to a new year and a new look for the Fordham website, and a new approach to our blog.
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What is the reality of student mobility in Ohio? Fordham study will find out
More students move between Columbus City Schools and neighboring school districts than move between the district and area charter schools, according to data from Community Research Partners (reported in today’s Columbus Dispatch).
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Charter Schools
Creating “AgBioscience” STEM Schools in the Buckeye State
STEM education in Ohio is a growing component of the state’s K-12 system. Metro Early College High School opened as a STEM school in Columbus in 2007, and since then STEM schools have opened their doors in metro regions.
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Board’s Eye View: Important issues for the 21st Century
Editor Peter Meyer explains his personal connection--and commitment--to education governance reform.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Welcome to Common Core Watch!
Editor Kathleen Porter-Magee introduces Fordham's new center for commentary and analysis on standards, curriculum, and instruction: the Common Core Watch blog.
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Stretching the School Dollar 101
Editor Chris Tessone introduces his new blog, Stretching the School Dollar.
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Educating the poor in India: lessons for America
The US can learn a great deal from private education in the developing world.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Common Core implementation: Let’s not lose the forest for the trees
Let's not gloss the challenges of transitioning to Common Core
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Taxpayers subsidize Colorado unions
More attention should be paid to the costs to taxpayers from union expenses.
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Is education reform losing something in the translation?
Guest blogger Ray Pinney of the New Jersey School Boards Association reflects on Fordham and CAP’s Rethinking Education Governance conference and what governance reform means for the Garden State.
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The Chinese delegation to ... Ohio?
Recently, China’s Hubei Bureau of Education Deputy Director Huang Jian has been visiting Ohio, specifically our schools, as part of the U.S.-China Administrator Shadowing Project.
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The latest attack on charter schools in Ohio
Read the latest analysis of the Ohio Education Association's federal lawsuit against charter schools in Ohio at www.edexcellence.net.
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The New Normal and Tiger's sex addiction
How could those two things be related? The priceless combination of Mike’s baby-caused sleep-deprived state and Rick’s witty plug for his forthcoming tome, of course. All while they chew over whether the Race to the Top has been a success and the implications of Brownie’s election as U.S. Senator.
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WFB, RIP
So many remarkable encomia appeared within hours of Bill Buckley's death yesterday that we dare not try to rival them for appreciation of his wit, his erudition and personal charm, his generosity of spirit and peerless sense of humor, his intellectual versatility, his amazing vocabulary or his enormous and lasting place in contemporary American conservatism.
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Jon Husted at Ohio event: Get people to commit to high standards and they can achieve those standards
Jon Husted of the Ohio State Senate is talking about setting high academic standards:
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Sue Pimentel at Ohio event: First ask about non-negotiables when creating assessments and standards
Sue Pimentel of StandardsWork gives advice about creating standards and assesments: 1) Ask up front about non-negotiables.
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National charter school experts implore Ohio Senate to fix charter provisions in state budget bill
The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools and the National Association of Charter School Authorizers have joined the chorus of charter school advocates and others who are calling for the Ohio Senate to fix the charter provisions o
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Did you know? Cincinnati students in "F" schools 5x less likely to have National Board certified teacher than students in "A" schools
Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) has the highest number of teachers with certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (139) of any Ohio district, but the way these teachers are distributed across the??district threatens to undermine CPS' mission to improve learning for all students.??
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Ohio's voucher program reaches its cap - how much "evidence" will justify expansion?
For the first time since its inception five years ago, Ohio's EdChoice Scholarship program (the state's targeted school voucher program) has reached its legal
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Ohioans come together to discuss increasing efficiency and cost-savings for local schools and governments
Earlier this week The Thomas B.
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Did you know? Ohio district and charter students have different odds of seeing Race to the Top funds
To be eligible for a portion of $200 to $400 million in Race to the Top money (that is, if Ohio wins ???
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?Needles in a Haystack?? check out the full video highlighting Ohio's highest-performing urban schools
The schools that serve Ohio's poor, urban youngsters overwhelmingly fall short when it comes to academic performance. But there are a small handful of schools that buck these bleak trends and show serious achievement for disadvantaged youngsters from depressed inner-city communities.
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Ohio's school funding "fix" hasn't changed reality for some communities
The other day the Columbus Dispatch ran an article assessing Gov. Strickland's school funding plan and the extent to which he's kept his 2006 campaign promise to fix school funding in Ohio.