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And we're off: Our annual analysis of Ohio report card data
Today the Ohio Department of Education releases troves of performance data about the state's public schools. Fordham once again provided quick-turnaround, city-by-city analyses of public school performance in the Buckeye state's eight major urban areas.
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Keep an eye out for analyses of achievement in Ohio districts, schools, and charters
Each year, the Fordham Ohio team does an analysis of urban school performance in August when statewide achievement data?are released. We've been doing this analysis for many years, reporting on the number of Ohio students in the Buckeye State's ?Big 8?
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Charter Schools
Head of Cleveland NAACP to turn around failing charter school
File this under pieces of news that confuse my emotions. Rev. Stanley Miller, executive director of the Cleveland NAACP, is leaving that post to take on an area charter school ? a very terrible one to be specific (Marcus Garvey Academy). I am equal parts inspired by this move (Rev. Miller is a 63-year old whose heart is undoubtedly in the right place) and cynical.
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Teacher Characteristics and Student Achievement: Evidence from Teach For America
They could be onto something here
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Mapping State Proficiency Standards onto the NAEP Scales: Variation and Change in State Standards for Reading and Mathematics, 2005-2009
State proficiency rates: Still misleading
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How would Ohio fare in Bellwether's teacher effectiveness analysis?
Yesterday Bellwether Education Partners released a scorecard that evaluated teacher effectiveness legislation in five different states.
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State Superintendent Heffner: Understanding practical Common Core implementation challenges
I had the good fortune to spend time last week with Stan Heffner, Ohio's new state superintendent of public instruction. I enjoyed the conversation mightily because it mostly focused on two things that don't usually get enough attention in education policy conversations ??? teaching and learning.
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State Superintendent Heffner: Understanding practical Common Core implementation challenges
I had the good fortune to spend time last week with Stan Heffner, Ohio’s new state superintendent of public instruction. I enjoyed the conversation mightily because it mostly focused on two things that don’t usually get enough attention in education policy conversations – teaching and learning.
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State budget impact: voucher and charter expansion
With Ohio’s biennial budget (HB 153) now in effect, it’s time to get into the details to figure out precisely how Ohio’s schools, educators, and students will be affected. Consider two education policy changes included in HB 153 that are aimed at providing more education options for students in low-performing district schools: increasing eligibility for the EdChoice Scho
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Keeping Ohio's future: Practical and promising solutions for Ohio's brain drain
Ohio lawmakers have introduced a bill aimed at stemming Ohio’s brain drain and keeping college graduates in the state after they earn their degrees. The legislation would allow Ohio college graduates, whether they are Ohio natives or not, who obtain a job in the Buckeye State to have their earned income exempted from
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Importing Leaders for School Turnaround
An effective leader is vital to an effective school, especially when that school is a turnaround. Unfortunately, those equipped to lead rapid change in consistently low-performing schools are in short supply. In this report, Public Impact suggests that school leaders be imported from untapped pipelines of talent lying outside of the education sector.
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Student Teaching in America
Every year some 200,000 teacher candidates from 1,400 higher education institutions complete their student teaching requirement. In theory, student teaching is an opportunity for students to combine everything they’ve learned about the profession over the course of their training, and walk away prepared for the classroom.