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Charter-School Management Organizations: Diverse Strategies and Diverse Student Impacts
New study explains the ?what? and ?how? but not the ?who?
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High-Stakes Reform: The Politics of Educational Accountability
Centralization leads to politicization
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You'd be crazy to see SB5's defeat as a defeat for Ohio school reform
Ohio's electorate soundly rejected Issue 2 (the referendum on Senate Bill 5) on Tuesday. As almost everyone knows, that statute made significant changes to collective bargaining for public employees in the Buckeye State.
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Calling out the education schools
It is never easy to challenge your own friends and colleagues. But Thomas Lasley, the former dean of education at the University of Dayton, does just that in his hard hitting piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education ??? ???Why do Teacher-Education Programs Fear a New Rating System????
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Fixing Rhode Island's pensions
Rhode Island's teacher pension system is a mess. The annual cost of the retirement system has doubled since 2003 and will likely double again by 2013.
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Call for common sense education reforms in Ohio won't die with defeat of Senate Bill 5
Ohio's airwaves have been abuzz with commercials for and against Issue 2 (the referendum for Senate Bill 5). For those not living in the Buckeye State, SB 5 is the state's highly contentious public sector reform law. According to Ohio's Secretary of State, opponents of the law have raised almost $24 million to shoot it down, while supporters have mustered about $6 million to save it.
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Education in the P.R.C.: A layer cake baked from the top down
China?s heavy-handed governance structure
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The Nation???s Report Card 2011: Reading and Mathematics
The arrows point in the right direction?but just barely
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Strategic Pay Reform: A Student Outcomes-Based Evaluation of Denver???s ProComp Teacher Pay Initiative
We might be onto something here
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Don???t Count Us Out: How an Overreliance on Accountability Could Undermine the Public???s Confidence in Schools, Business, Government, and More
What we have here, is a failure, to communicate
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Putting Ohio's teacher evaluation reforms in a national context
The State Board of Education has just eight weeks left to develop a model framework for teacher evaluations that will be used or adapted by over 1000 local education agencies (LEA) by July of 2013. (Ohio's biennial budget ? HB 153 ? stipulated that the Board come up with a model by December 31 of this year.)? Skeletal requirements are spelled out in state law.
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Voucher student performance promising, better data needed
Ohio currently has a basket full of publicly funded, private-school voucher programs, making it unique in America's school choice landscape. Ohio has three separate programs for students in failing districts, students with autism, and students living in Cleveland. A voucher program for students with disabilities launches next year.
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Why I support the education provisions in the hotly debated SB5
Earlier this year I testified in both the Ohio Senate and the House in support of the education provisions embedded in the highly contentious Senate Bill 5. SB5, now known as Issue 2, is up for referendum next Tuesday and current polls show the bill will very likely be overturned.
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Ohio needs a reading guarantee
Ohio needs an elementary school “reading guarantee.” This was one of several recommendations for improving student achievement in Ohio that were pitched last week by School Choice Ohio at its event highlighting the research of Matt Ladner (senior advisor of policy and re
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Why I support the education provisions in the hotly debated SB5
Earlier this year I testified in both the Ohio Senate and the House in support of the education provisions embedded in the highly contentious Senate Bill 5. SB5, now known as Issue 2, is up for referendum next Tuesday and current polls show the bill will very likely be overturned.
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Putting Ohio's teacher evaluation reforms in a national context
The State Board of Education has just eight weeks left to develop a model framework for teacher evaluations that will be used or adapted by over 1000 local education agencies (LEA) by July of 2013. (Ohio’s biennial budget – HB 153 – stipulated that the Board come up with a model by December 31 of this year.) Skeletal requirements are spelled out in state law.
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Ohio's NAEP results no surprise
The 2011 NAEP results for reading and mathematics were released yesterday - see here for our DC colleague Mike Petrilli’s take on it. Nationally, fourth-grade reading scores remained the same from 2009, while eighth graders achieved a small increase in reading performance.
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Voucher student performance promising, better data needed
Ohio currently has a basket full of publicly funded, private-school voucher programs, making it unique in America’s school choice landscape. Ohio has three separate programs for students in failing districts, students with autism, and students living in Cleveland. A voucher program for students with disabilities launches next year.
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Local school and government leaders gather to discuss sharing services to improve performance
Can we work smarter together?
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Strong Support, Low Awareness: Public Perception of the Common Core State Standards
While adoption and implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) have spurred a hailstorm of activity across educator and policy circles alike, the general public remains clueless even as to what the standards are—never mind how they are being implemented or what the long-term implications of their adoption might be.
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Developing Education Talent Pipelines for Charter Schools
Strong teachers and leaders are undoubtedly critical to the success of any school system; research has repeatedly suggested that school leadership is second only behind classroom instruction in its impact on student learning. The autonomous nature of charter schools makes the need for strong school leadership even more crucial.
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Teacher accountability making strides
Over the last decade poverty levels in American suburbs have increased by more than 50 percent. As two-thirds of this dramatic increase came recently during 2007-2010, suburban communities have had to re-evaluate their community identities including how they fund local schools particularly in areas surrounding