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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.

Commentary
11.8.2011

Calling out the education schools

Terry Ryan

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????

Commentary
11.4.2011

Call for common sense education reforms in Ohio won't die with defeat of Senate Bill 5

Terry Ryan

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.

Commentary
11.4.2011

Fixing Rhode Island's pensions

Chris Tessone

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.

Commentary
11.2.2011

Why I support the education provisions in the hotly debated SB5

Terry Ryan

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.