In a New York Times article this week, Sam Dillon examined the Obama administration's $4 billion attempt to turn around the country's worst schools and highlighted Ohio's capital city's $20 million effort to remake seven of the city's most troubled schools.
There’s been vast media coverage of the Akron mom who went to jail for nine days after being convicted of sending her two children to a school outside their atten
Nobody deserves tenure, with the possible exception of federal judges. University professors don’t deserve tenure; civil servants don’t deserve tenure; police and firefighters don’t deserve tenure; school teachers don’t deserve tenure.
The National Association for Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) just released its third annual survey of charter school authorizers (a.k.a. “sponsors” in Ohio).
In this report, Dan Goldhaber of the Center for American Progress analyzes various teacher evaluation processes nationwide and provides recommendations for improving them, since current evaluation systems--to the surprise of no one-- fail to effectively measure the differences in teacher effectiveness.
Last Wednesday, the Ohio House Education Committee held hearings related to several education bills currently on the table, among them HB 21, which aims to lift the ironclad moratorium on virtual e-schools, grant a professional educator license to graduates of Teach For America wishing to teach in the
Ohio has long awarded districts five calamity days – school days that can be missed and not made up due to inclement weather, power outages, or other catastrophic incidents. In 2009, Governor Strickland argued – as one of the stronger components of his education reform package – that Ohio in fact needed to add days to the school year to catch up with our better-
The recently released 2009 NAEP science results provide an in-depth look at how knowledgeable students across the country are in various science-related academic areas. The framework for 2009 sought to align the assessment with new developments in science standards, content, and curricula.
With the initial buzz over virtual schooling on its way out, questions about quality and effectiveness are on their way in.
Add this report by the Center For American Progress (CAP) to the mountain of evidence disproving the notion in American public education that more money is incontrovertibly better (or even necessary to achieve greater productivity). And add it to the slowly growing pile of work that attempts to measure educational productivity, or “return on investment” – a concept CAP w
Last week the Ohio House Education Committee held hearings related to several education bills currently on the table, among them HB 21, which aims to lift the ironclad moratorium on virtual e-schools, grant a professional educator license to graduates of Teach For America wishing to teach in the Buckey
Why public-sector unions have run their course
A hard look at the ?career? in college- and career-ready
Ohio's EdChoice Scholarship Program, a voucher program for students attending chronically underperforming schools, will begin to accept applications for the 2011-2012 school year tomorrow, February 1.
It's National School Choice Week ? the first of its kind. And now, thanks to Gov. Kasich making it official, it's also Ohio School Choice Week. Close to 1,000 Ohioans have attended events across the state this week to celebrate.
If there?s good news to report, we can?t find it
In this case, it would have been good to point fingers
