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School Choice, School Quality and Postsecondary Attainment
Posthumous proof of the benefits of a controlled-choice program
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State Achievement Score Trends Through 2008-09, Part 5: Progress Lags in High School, Especially for Advanced Achievers
Further evidence of the gifted gap
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Charter schools a hot topic in Ohio
This week StateImpact Ohio is featuring a series on charter schools in Ohio that will address questions about charter school performance, management/governance, finances, and more.
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How do Ohio's low-and high-performing districts compare to international peers?
The George W. Bush Presidential Center, located in Dallas, Texas recently released data on international student achievement in both reading and math, which you can peruse in an interactive tool, the Global Report Card. It compares 2007 math and reading achievement levels between districts across the nation and 25 developed nations.
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A frank look at Fordham's ranking among Ohio authorizers
The Ohio Department of Education released performance rankings of all charter authorizers (aka ???sponsors???) this week, as part of the new requirement that those ranking in the bottom 20 percent of all authorizers cannot take on new schools for one year.
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A frank look at Fordham's ranking among Ohio authorizers
The Ohio Department of Education released performance rankings of all charter authorizers (aka ???sponsors???) this week, as part of the new requirement that those ranking in the bottom 20 percent of all authorizers cannot take on new schools for one year.
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Columbus Collegiate Academy wins federal charter start-up grant
Last week the U.S. Department of Education awarded grants totaling $25 million to charter school management organizations that have been successful at raising student achievement in extremely difficult conditions.
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Discipline Policies, Successful Schools, and Racial Justice
Part report, part psychological analysis
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Transforming Public Education: Pathway to a Pre-K-12 Future
The last lurch of the preschool juggernaut?
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Teacher quality - know it when you see it?
Today on the Learning Matters blog (an affiliate of PBS) check out a discussion on teacher training programs and teacher quality, featuring New?Leaders for New Schools'?Jon Schnur, Allan Odden, Public Impact's Julie Kowal and Sharon Kebschull Barrett, and yours truly (among man
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Ohio must graduate more high school students college-ready, and more college students on time
The sad reality for many Americans, and Ohioans, is that too many of them are not prepared to enter the workforce.
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Making school choice work for kids
Ohio is on the verge of adding an enormous new private school choice scholarship to its existing array of choice programs and policies.
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ObamaFlex: Too much tight, too little loose
Followers of Fordham’s work know that, for the better part of three years, we’ve been advancing an approach to federal education policy that we call “Reform Realism”—a pro-school-reform orientation leavened with a
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Legislative round-up: Lots of school choice bills on the table
After an unusually busy spring and summer passing major education reforms, the General Assembly isn’t ready to stop quite yet. September saw renewed debate in the House and Senate over education issues, most notably those bills that impact K-12 school choice.
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Teacher ratings spread out evenly across spectrum of quality
This week the Columbus Dispatch ran an article about recently released performance ratings of some 7,500 teachers in central Ohio, including those in Columbus City Schools and South-Western City Schools.
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Measuring Inequity in School Funding
This report examines variations in per-pupil funding across states and further analyzes funding differences between districts within each state. In order to make comparisons in funding between states, it adjusts for local costs by looking at of the percentage of taxable resources each state spends on education.
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Education and Synthetic Work-Life Earnings Estimates
This recent report by the United States Census Bureau looks at the relationship between an individual’s level of education and their earnings.
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What do GOP candidates think about education?
Ohio should know that it’s not alone: Value-Added performance assessment of teachers is becoming more and more widely used as part of evaluation ratings. This report by the Wall Street Journal points out that districts in at least 26 states are judg
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The unilateral repeal of NCLB and the 2012 election
You better believe Rick Perry is watching this one
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Is college the best ticket to the middle class?
With completion rates so low, we need to consider other options
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