The State of Proficiency: How student proficiency rates vary across states, subjects, and grades between 2002 and 2010
Daniela FairchildThe proficiency illusion remains
A Big Apple for Educators: New York City???s Experiment with Schoolwide Performance Bonuses: Final Evaluation Report
Useful report, useless program
Practical--and promising--solutions for Ohio's brain drain
Emmy L. PartinOhio lawmakers have introduced a bill aimed at stemming Ohio's brain drain and keeping college graduates in the state after they earn their degrees.
Impact of Ohio's biennial budget on charter school start-up regions
Jamie Davies O'LearyOhio's biennial budget put some significant education policy changes into effect this month, many of which we're still sifting through.
Ohio's new threshold for voucher eligibility affects very few schools
Jamie Davies O'LearyWith Ohio's biennial budget (HB 153) now in effect, we're still wrapping our brains around all of the implications of various provisions (recall that there were several hundred pages of education policy changes in the legislation).
Ohio provision to re-test teachers at low-performing schools: What will the impact be?
Bianca SperanzaAs Jamie previously mentioned, with Ohio's budget (HB 153) now in effect Fordham is busy dissecting all the different provisions and what they mean for Ohio's students.
NAEP Geography: Our schools??? secret success
Michael J. PetrilliPoor and minority students are learning more. Is it worth it?
NAEP Geography: But what about the whole country?
Chester E. Finn, Jr.On that front, the glass is two-thirds empty
The myth of the "good" school
Michael J. PetrilliCharters have a place, even in high-performing districts
Roadmap for Next Generation State Accountability Systems
Standards and assessments, meet the third leg in your stool: accountability
Save the Dates: Two September events on Assuring Highly Effective Teachers for All Ohio Students
After a several-month-long debate in the Buckeye State over teacher personnel policies, Ohio now stands at a crossroad. The biennial budget bill (HB 153) calls for the state to develop a model teacher evaluation framework by the end of this year and to adopt policies tying teacher evaluations to other key personnel decisions like dismissal, placement, tenure, and compensation.
Let's talk education reform
Michael J. Petrilli, Chester E. Finn, Jr.Checker and Mike: GOP speech writers?
Publishers??? Criteria for the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts and Literacy
Kathleen Porter-MageeHow textbook publishers can walk the CCSS-alignment walk
Learning Time in America: Trends to Reform the American School Calendar: A Snapshot of Federal, State, and Local Action
Chris IrvineCut education costs, not education
Making Teacher Incentives Work: Lessons from North Carolina's Teacher Bonus Program
School-level rewards find unlikely supporters