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Commentary
11.18.2011

Does our school funding system threaten digital learning's potential?

Tyson Eberhardt

Education technology is a hot sector for innovative entrepreneurs and ambitious investors. While interest and investment in digital education skyrocket, though, the inflexibility of the existing school funding system may stifle its potential?at least according to Paul T. Hill in "School Finance in the Digital-Learning Era," the latest installment in Fordham's Creating Sound Policy for Digital Learning series.

Commentary
11.18.2011

For next-generation educating, we need next-generation funding

Futurists have long regaled us with predictions about technology dramatically improving education by giving millions more students access to the very best teachers and deploying computer-based systems that allow them to learn at their own pace at whatever time and place works best for them. This vision is now becoming a reality, partly because tight budgets are forcing K-12 schools to employ fewer teachers and boost the productivity of those who remain.

Commentary
11.18.2011

Rhode Island pension reform is not a success story

Chris Tessone

Last night, Rhode Island?s legislature passed a sweeping reform of its public-sector retirement system. It cuts retiree benefits, mostly by suspending cost of living adjustments, and institutes a cheaper hybrid plan with a 401(k)-like private account component, and it should save taxpayers billions of dollars in coming years.

Commentary
11.17.2011
Charter Schools

From talking the talk to walking the walk of urban school choice

Emmy L. Partin

Fordham has been involved in the arena of school choice in Ohio at virtually every level for the past decade, except that of a parent. Issues of school choice and the quality (or not) of urban schools have been a big part of my professional life the last five years. Now, they are front and center in my personal life, too.

Commentary
11.16.2011

State Superintendent Heffner makes case for more demanding K-12 expectations

Jamie Davies O'Leary

Ohio teachers and administrators work tirelessly to deliver an excellent education to the state?s 1.8 million students, said State Superintendent of Public Instruction Stan Heffner at the annual Ohio School Boards Association?s conference earlier this week. So why are fewer than one in three of Ohio?s fourth graders reading at a proficient level (according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress)? Worse, why are achievement scores unimpressive among not only the Buckeye State?s urban districts, but even among wealthier suburban districts, especially in contrast to students internationally?

Commentary
11.16.2011

State Superintendent Heffner makes case for more demanding K-12 expectations

Jamie Davies O'Leary

Ohio teachers and administrators work tirelessly to deliver an excellent education to the state?s 1.8 million students, said State Superintendent of Public Instruction Stan Heffner at the annual Ohio School Boards Association?s conference earlier this week. So why are fewer than one in three of Ohio?s fourth graders reading at a proficient level (according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress)? Worse, why are achievement scores unimpressive among not only the Buckeye State?s urban districts, but even among wealthier suburban districts, especially in contrast to students internationally?

Commentary
11.15.2011

Ohio's Senate Bill 5: A union dissenter's perspective

Ever wonder what happens to teachers who don't want to join the union? In her emotional testimony to the Ohio House's Commerce and Labor Committee on Senate Bill 5 this morning, teacher Carol Katter of Wapakoneta provided an answer.

Commentary
11.15.2011

State Superintendent Heffner makes case for more demanding K-12 expectations

Jamie Davies O'Leary

Ohio teachers and administrators work tirelessly to deliver an excellent education to the state’s 1.8 million students, said State Superintendent of Public Instruction Stan Heffner at the annual Ohio School Boards Association’s  conference earlier this week.  So why are fewer than one in three of Ohio’s fourth graders reading at a proficient level (

Commentary
11.15.2011

Digital Learning Now: Nation's Digital Report Card

Bianca Speranza

In 2010 the Foundation for Excellence in Education convened the Digital Learning Council, which brought together leaders from education, government, and business to develop a framework to integrate technology meaningfully into K-12 classrooms acros

Commentary
11.15.2011

Assessing the Compensation of Public-School Teachers

Matt Kyle

While researchers have long tried to answer questions about whether teachers are under or overpaid, this study from the Heritage Foundation and American Enterprise Institute attempts to evaluate the total compensation of public school teachers against other

Commentary
11.14.2011

Hey, big spender

Chris Tessone

We are going to see increasing in-fighting among big government types as big-spending school districts compete for resources with the rest of the agenda supported by the public fisc. Schools are increasingly going to lose those battles, which they?re not used to. Today?s example comes from Montgomery County, Maryland, where I live.

Commentary
11.11.2011
Curriculum & Instruction

Teacher Prep Falls Short

Terry Ryan

To improve student learning in Ohio, and in other states, we need to improve the quality of our teaching force.