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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.
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Inside IMPACT: D.C.'s Model Teacher Evaluation System
Outsiders have envied, emulated, and damned D.C.’s acclaimed teacher-evaluation system, IMPACT. But what is the insiders’ perspective? This report from Ed Sector delivers the answer. Author Susan Headden, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, presents a thorough and balanced perspective on this revolutionary (but still emergent) system.
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Charting New Territory: Tapping Charter Schools to Turn Around the Nation's Dropout Factories
This report begins with a Cinderella story: high school (the infamous Locke in Los Angeles) meets charter management organization, is taken over, transforms from drop-out factory to a high-performing charter. How widespread should the involvement of charter management organizations be in turning around the nation’s lowest performing high schools?
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Gamers rejoice!
How does your opinion compare to the average teacher’s? The fifth annual survey conducted by Harvard’s Program on Education and Governance and Education Next covers a wide variety of education policy issues and found a growing disparity between the views of teachers and the general public.
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A billion dollars per student? Sure why not.
By now I am sure that all of you have heard about the Save our Schools Rally that took place in Washington D.C. last weekend. The rally, organized by teachers, parents, and advocates called for an end to controversial education policies?and to ?put the public back in public schools.?
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Will Ohio ever learn the charter quality lesson?
At the onset of the 2010-11 school year, 39 new charter schools opened their doors in the Buckeye State. These new schools bring the total number of charters in Ohio to just over 350.?? They collectively serve more than 100,000 students.
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Meet the Ed Reform Idol contestants: Ohio
The following is a guest post from Peggy Lehner, Ohio State Senator for the 6th District, on why Ohio should be considered the reformiest state at our Ed Reform Idol event next week.
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The schools???and the deficits???we deserve
Lower taxes + Increased school spending = Balanced budget?
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Public School Choice in the District of Columbia: A Descriptive Analysis
The skinny? Yes, charters are cream-skimming
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Critical Contributions: Philanthropic Investment in Teachers and Teaching
Guess who pulled in the largest purse? Hint: Their initials are TFA
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Collecting data on teacher prep programs a good start for improving them
You've probably heard that NCTQ president Kate Walsh and new Tennessee Commissioner of Education Kevin Huffman testified in Congress this week on issues related to teacher quality.
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Rick Hess defines the challenge those of us in the field have been stumbling around for years
Fordham's new paper authored by Rick Hess on ???Creating Healthy Policy for Digital Learning??? is critically important for those of us on the ground working as school administrators, school leaders, charter school authorizers and education policy makers.
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Harambee: A good way to start the day in Dayton
I had the good fortune to start my day at the Omega Baptist Church in Dayton with a group of young scholars and their 20-something mentors who were leading Harambee. Harambee means ???pull together??? in Swahili.