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Curriculum & Instruction
Schooling in the Workplace: How Six of the World’s Best Vocational Education Systems Prepare Young People for Jobs and Life
America: Take notes
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Testimony on the Federal Role in Education Research: Providing Relevant Information to Students, Parents, and Educators
Russ Whitehurst, pulling no punches
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The cost of K-12 dropouts
Students who don't finish school hurt the efficiency of our education system.
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Ohio needs competition and high standards to elevate its digital learning marketplace
One could argue that 2011 has been the year of ?digital learning? across America but in fact digital learning has been big business in Ohio for more than a decade. Lessons from that experience should inform the Buckeye State?s approach to new digital learning opportunities that are generating excitement and optimism.
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Charter Schools
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Fordham Sponsorship 2010-11 Year in Review
Since their inception in 1997, charter schools have been at the center of some of the most politically contentious debates about education in Ohio. The past year offered yet another example of charter school controversy, but this time with a twist. The 2010 elections were very good for Buckeye State Republicans, with John Kasich winning the governor?s race (replacing Ted Strickland who had been a charter adversary throughout his four-year term). Republicans also took control of the House while expanding their majority in the Senate.
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Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Fordham Sponsorship 2010-11 Year in Review
WILD AND WACKY POLITICAL BATTLES
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Holiday feast: STOP THE PRESSES!!! And pass the gravy.
Peter Meyer previews the latest edition of Education Next.
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Pricing public education
Reformers who are focused on ?doing more with less? in the nation?s schools should reclaim the high ground on school finance. Case in point: the rising cost of higher education in California.
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Charter Schools
Suffering schools should learn to do more with less
As school levies fail across central Ohio, I am concerned and disappointed to see so many school districts quickly threaten to reduce the quality of our children?s education. Providing an excellent education for our children may be the single most important thing we can do as responsible citizens.
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Curriculum & Instruction
How about better parents? Ask Clarence Lee
Peter Meyer reflects on Tom Friedman's column about parents and education.
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Does our school funding system threaten digital learning's potential?
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.
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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.
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Rhode Island pension reform is not a success story
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.
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Charter Schools
From talking the talk to walking the walk of urban school choice
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.
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Like peanut butter and chocolate: Digital learning and excellent teachers go well together
With you for me, and me for you?
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For next-generation learning, we need next-generation funding
Dear funding structure, Stop crippling innovation. Sincerely, Paul
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Keeping Pace with K-12 Online Learning: An Annual Review of Policy and Practice
Expanding digital learning the most inefficient way possible: One district at a time
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Online and Blended Learning: A Survey of Policy and Practice from K-12 Schools Around the World
Has anyone got this figured out yet?
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Online K-12 Schooling in the U.S.: Uncertain Private Venture in Need of Public Regulation
Surprisingly sound recommendations from the anti-capatalists
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Teacher-to-be wishes SB 5 was still around
Fordham intern and future teacher Matt Kyle reflects on why SB 5 mattered.
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State Superintendent Heffner makes case for more demanding K-12 expectations
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?
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State Superintendent Heffner makes case for more demanding K-12 expectations
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?
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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.
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Colorado initiative could serve as model for Ohio schools
The Falcon 49 School District near Colorado Springs is implementing an innovative structure to their administrative system, according to this article in Education Week.
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State Superintendent Heffner makes case for more demanding K-12 expectations
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 (
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You'd be crazy to see SB5's defeat as rejection of Ohio school reform
Ohio’s electorate soundly rejected Issue 2 (the referendum on Senate Bill 5) last Tuesday. As almost everyone knows, that statute made significant changes to collective bargaining for public employees in the Buckeye State.
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Voucher kids do better than peers
This letter to the editor appeared in the Columbus Dispatch on November 12.