The education community has long emphasized that “one size does not fit all” for students, but what about for teachers? In a new white paper, The Promise of Cafeteria-Style Benefits for Districts and Teachers, researchers from CRPE propose customizing teachers’ benefit plans as a cost-stabilizing measure for districts.
After a year of “tedious” negotiations, strong recommendations from The New Teacher Project, and a considerable amount of hype (mostly from board
A recent report from our colleagues at the Fordham Institute’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., Are Bad Schools Immortal?, shows the folly of school turnaround efforts – only 1.4 percent of district schools and less than 1 percent of charters that have underg
Doctors, lawyers, and … teachers? If Democrats for Education Reform gets its way, this list of occupations will no longer prompt the question of which one doesn’t belong.
Fifteen clear and specific ideas for the budget battles to come
Stellar results with small budgets? Five stars for some Lone Star schools!
Still we?re left asking, ?now what??
Another indication of our education system?s low expectations
A market emerges in South Africa while another re-emerges in Virginia
Fordham has written about tax credit scholarships before ? do they increase competition and improve traditional public schools?
It's a Friday in December and so you're probably holiday shopping for your pets, eating candy canes, or figuring out what to wear for your bad holiday sweater party (wear the purple and green one!)? or possibly none of those things.
Yesterday the Fordham Ohio team released its 2010 year in review, a synthesis of our work over the year and a document which we expect has already been printed out and is now hanging framed on your wall. Well, hopefully you saw it and read or skimmed a good bit of it.
Thanks to Pandora and other free music-streaming websites, many Fordham staffers can be seen with at least one ear-bud channeling music during stressful report production, editing, etc. throughout the year. Now that the holidays are upon us, one popular jingle comes to mind: So this is Christmas
A selection of Fordham quotes in national media, Ohio newspapers, and the blogosphere
Recently, China's Hubei Bureau of Education Deputy Director Huang Jian has been visiting Ohio, specifically our schools, as part of the U.S.-China Administrator Shadowing Project.
Yesterday the Gates-led ?District-Charter Collaboration Compact?
What happens when a charter principal says "I'm outta here"?
We've been no fans of the Columbus City School District's treatment
Much has been written about spectacular charter school blow-ups that have cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars. Rarely, if ever, do we see headlines that read ???Closed charter school returns $423,421 to state's coffers.???
The Thomas B. Fordham Foundation has been authorizing (aka sponsoring) charter schools in Ohio since 2005, and we’ve learned a ton these past five years. Sharing these lessons is important – one of the reasons we devote time, energy, and money on our annual sponsorship report.
A key purpose of education is to strengthen the polity. Thomas Jefferson summed it up when he said, ???To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.??? The health of Ohio's polity is like that of a middle-aged smoker.
