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Commentary
9.26.2011

National poll of voters provides conflicting insights on Ohio's Senate Bill 5

Terry Ryan

Voters in Ohio support restrictions on collective bargaining (60% support restrictions), and strong majorities (62%) oppose service cuts as a means of keeping public employees at current salary and benefit levels. ??These findings from Douglas E. Schoen ??? pollster for President Bill Clinton ???

Commentary
9.21.2011

No high achiever left behind, please

Chester E. Finn, Jr., Janie Scull, Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.

It?s not chic to fuss about them, but our international competitiveness may depend on them

Commentary
9.21.2011

What can Ohio districts learn from Colorado's Harrison School District 2?

Ohio school district leaders as well as state policymakers and education leaders should pay attention to what's happening in the Harrison school district just outside of Colorado Springs, and not just because NCTQ President Kate Walsh called its teacher evaluation and compensation system one of the most sophisticated in the country.

Commentary
9.20.2011

Ohio's value-added system faces a new level of scrutiny

Terry Ryan

Ohio has been a national leader in using value-added measures of student academic growth. The current value-added system was piloted in 2007 and fully integrated into the state accountability system in 2008. Yet, since then Ohio’s value-added system has come under increasing scrutiny and criticism from some district superintendents and others in the field.

Commentary
9.20.2011

Report card recap

Bianca Speranza

This year with the help of researchers from Public Impact in North Carolina we continued our tradition of conducting an annual analysis of student achievement in Ohio’s Big 8 districts and charters. State report card data were released in late August, and we released a quick turn-around analysis on Big 8 charters and traditional schools.

Commentary
9.20.2011

For best and worst schools in Ohio, AYP status seems accurate

Jamie Davies O'Leary

AYP, or “adequate yearly progress,” has become one of the most derided parts of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, and the accountability requirements it set in motion for states. Simply put, a school makes AYP if it is progressing adequately enough toward meeting NCLB’s goal of having 100 percent of children proficient in key tested subjects by 2014, and fails to meet AYP if it isn’t.

Commentary
9.20.2011

A Better Measure of Skills Gaps

Bianca Speranza

As the nation attempts to pull itself out of economic recession, leaders and policy makers alike are struggling to find ways to integrate the millions of unemployed back into the world of work. The longer these individuals go unemployed, the more likely it is that their current skill sets will continue to deteriorate.

Commentary
9.20.2011

Education, Demand and Unemployment in Metropolitan America

Matt Kyle

Education, Demand and Unemployment in Metropolitan America explores the relationship between high unemployment in U.S. cities and “education gaps” – instances in which employer demand for educated workers exceeds the supply of such workers. 

Commentary
9.20.2011

SpongeBob, SB 5, and ACT

Matt Kyle

 State-by-state ACT results for the 2011 graduating class shed light on the potential of our future workforce. Ohio’s state report looked at 92,313 students who took the ACT last year.