Here's our fourth take on where dollars will flow should Ohio win Race to the Top. We categorize students according to their schools' graduation rates, thus illuminating especially what type of?high school students will be impacted by funds.
Today we continue our analysis of which Ohio students will be affected by Race to the Top funds should the state win. This time, we are examining the data from yet another angle of performance ? Adequate Yearly Progress, or AYP.
Yesterday we examined who will be affected by Race to the Top funds should Ohio win; specifically, what are the academic ratings of RttT-funded schools?
With MOUs signed, applications submitted, and the words ?buy-in? not falling as freely from reporters mouths, Race to the Top has felt a bit dormant lately. Finalists will be announced in late July and final awards handed to winning states by September.
With Ohio facing worsening budget problems and headed into election season, it's worth reflecting on what's happened since last summer's controversial budget battle, which installed a new school funding system (via HB 1), attempted to incapacitate charter schools, and put ?21st c
What a difference a year makes. This time last year Ohio was in the midst of a heated battle to approve the state's FY2010-2011 budget. House Bill 1 passed in mid-July but its trek through the legislative process was marked more by sniping and political horse-trading than thoughtful policy debate.
Last fall, Terry wrote a piece for the Dayton Daily News highlighting a bizarre consequence of Ohio's academic rating system, namely that otherwise high performing districts failing to make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) with
It's certainly a busy day for Fordham's Ohio team. Check out today's The Sound of Ideas from Cleveland's NPR affiliate WCPN.?
Columbus was the latest city to host the award-winning documentary The Cartel, a film exposing the corruption within New Jersey’s K-12 education establishment.
Ohio’s growing teacher corps has driven up the cost of education, especially as teachers’ salaries and pensions are by far the largest expenditure in K-12 education.
Terry is a panelist today in Cincinnati at ?Trends in Teacher Compensation ? A Symposium for Educators.? In helping him prepare for the event, we've dug up oodles of data about Ohio's schools and teachers.? One set of numbers really jumped out ?
Last week Emmy highlighted the mismatch between Ohio's declining student enrollment (a near seven percent reduction since 2000) and growing teacher corps (up by almost 18 percent).
In case you missed Monday's announcement, be sure to check out this week's Ohio Gadfly to learn
After all the hype and brouhaha, Charles Murray wants to explain something to you. He starts in an odd place: Lackluster results from an evaluation of the Milwaukee voucher program should be cause for celebration. Then he cites Coleman, a perhaps dangerous move in light of how often what goes on in the home is used as an excuse for dreary efforts and results in the classroom.
Just a reminder that today is the last day to vote for the White House's Race to the Top Commencement Challenge. The winning high school will receive a visit from President Obama where he will speak at their commencement.
This week's Ohio Education Gadfly launches off with a timely call from Terry to educate children ?within our means.?
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Congratulations to Andrew Boy, the co-director and founder of Columbus Collegiate Academy, one of the six charter schools Fordham authorizes.
Check today's Ohio Education Gadfly for a special Race to the Top analysis recommending strategies for the Buckeye State as it heads into round two of the competition. Ohio has exactly one month (that's when districts and charter schools must sign on) to improve its application.
Today's Dayton Daily News featured an op-ed by Fordham's Terry Ryan on what Ohio can do to win in the next round of Race to the Top. In the op-ed, he provides three actionable points for moving forward: 1. Get more buy-in from districts and the teachers' unions.
Like Connecticut and California, Ohio has mistakenly blamed its lack of stakeholder support for its loss in th
This article is the reason I continue to hammer that states need to worry about reform substance not union support when crafting round two RTT applications.
Be sure to check out this week's Ohio Gadfly for a Q&A with Rick Hess, who divulges his thoughts on Race to the Top, educational entrepreneurship, Ohio's budget constraints, and why the notion of ???best practices??? in education makes him ???nauseous.???
Be sure to check out this week's Ohio Gadfly for a Q&A with Rick Hess, who divulges his thoughts on Race to the Top, educational entrepreneurship, Ohio's budget constraints, and why the notion of ?best practices?
There's a new trend at many of America's higher learning institutions: emphasizing career-specific majors at the cost of the liberal arts. A recent Newsweek piece by Nancy Cook, ???The Death of Liberal Arts???, covers the causes and potential effects of this movement.
Last week, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced the winners of the federal Race to the Top education sweepstakes. Delaware took home $100 million and Tennessee was awarded $500 million.
Ohio recently unveiled plans to scrap the Ohio Graduation Test (OGT) in favor of the ACT (and a combination of other performance measures) for high school juniors in an attempt to better align high school curricula with college- and career-ready
