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.
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.
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.
Another empirical study, more fodder for tax-credit proponents
Step 1: Adopt standards. Step 2:...
AYP, or ?adequate yearly progress,? has become one of the most derided parts of the 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's not.
Continuing with our coverage of the 2010-11 report card data release, today we take a look at school performance and growth by subject and how it compares among charter and traditional district schools in Ohio's Big 8. The following charts compare the average performance of charter schools in the Big 8 to the average performance of traditional public schools.
It's what's on the inside that counts
Seat time is so senseless
For the last two weeks we've been doing various analyses of school performance in Ohio's Big 8 district schools and charter schools. Today we dive in a little deeper and look at what happened to low- and high- performing schools over time.
For the last two weeks the Fordham Ohio team has been highlighting achievement trends in the Buckeye State's ?Big 8? districts (eight largest) and charter schools.
This week we took a look at what impact, if any, charter authorizer type (e.g., non-profit, educational service center, school district, or university) has on a school's academic performance, how
Pedagogical leaders, meet the business model
College professors like the Common Core?as far as we can tell
