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Developing Early Literacy: Report of the National Early Literacy Panel
National Institute for Literacy and National Center for Family Literacy2008
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How many governors does Ohio have?
When Gov. Ted Strickland gives his State of the State address next Wednesday and unveils his much-anticipated education-reform and school-funding plan in early February, which governor will show up?
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Beyond Tinkering: Creating Real Opportunities for Today's Learners and for Generations of Ohioans to Come
Ohio Grantmakers ForumJanuary 2009
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Top high schools in Ohio
What makes a great high school? In a new feature from Greatschools.net (see here) parents can find out what other parents of children in high schools are saying makes a high school great and study the schools for themselves.
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Hands out in Ohio
It's no surprise that Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland and nearly every other governor in the country have a hand out for a hand out from Washington. Democrats want to spend $825 billion on all kinds of programs from roads and energy efficiency to welfare and education. States have real pressing needs to pay for all these items and not enough money to do it.
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Ohio has chance to innovate with education technology
We've been vocal these past months with our concerns about where Ohio's leaders might take K-12 education (see here). But we're the first to admit our optimism about Ohio's opportunity to make real strides in integrating education and technology:
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Quality Counts report finds, yawn, Ohio with a B-minus
Ohio education is beginning to look like Ohio State in post-season football--OK, but not nearly good enough, according to the 2009 Education Week Quality Counts survey, released online today (see here). The state school system got its usual B-minus, the same as last year.
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Ohio: lower paid teachers teaching poor kids
Or so a study released yesterday by the Education Trust has found.
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Teacher Turnover, Tenure Policies, and the Distribution of Teacher Quality: Can High-Poverty Schools Catch a Break?
This comprehensive report neatly summarizes what we know about teacher effectiveness, turnover, distribution, and tenure--and their relation to the overrepresentation of low quality teachers in high poverty schools.
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A 'third way' for Arne Duncan?
On Tuesday, President-Elect Obama ended weeks of speculation by selecting Chicago schools CEO Arne Duncan to be his secretary of education.
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No money, no standards?
Here's an original (and fallacious) thought: when times get rough, absolve children of the need to learn math. That, at least, is the story coming out of Oregon, where budget woes have allegedly forced the state to drop its brand-new graduation requirements in algebra, geometry, and statistics.
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Republic of Scarsdale?
It's no new news that Scarsdale, NY has long disdained tests and suffered from an inflated ego on this topic as well. Its latest ploy to distinguish itself from the pack?
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Facing the Future: Financing Productive Schools
Center on Reinventing Public Education, School Finance Redesign ProjectPaul T. Hill, Marguerite Roza, and James HarveyDecember 2008
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Abbott & Costello
Here's a travesty: the perpetuation of the notorious funding adequacy case Abbott v. Burke. On Monday, the New Jersey Supreme Court decided 5-0 to, in effect, not decide, again, on the fate of this 27-year long effort to enhance the budgets of 31 poor and low performing districts in the Garden State.
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Obama and Ohio's Dems race to victory--now they must get along
It's a cliché, perhaps, but one worth repeating. The real winners in Tuesday's election are the people of Ohio. An incredible number turned out to vote (rivaling the record set in 2004), and a clear majority delivered the state's electoral votes to U.S. Sen. Barack Obama.
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The last hurrah
If you can't beat ‘em, go around ‘em? That seems to be the latest Bush Administration strategy when it comes to No Child Left Behind. Having spent the better part of four years trying to persuade Congress to reauthorize the act to no avail, Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings has taken the matter into her own hands. How?
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Ohio Governor's Roadmap for Academic Reforms, translated by the Ohio Education Gadfly
(A guest post from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute's Ohio Education Gadfly)
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A state perspective: the School Finance Redesign Project findings and Ohio
A post from guest blogger and Fordham Director of Ohio Policy and Research Suzannah Herrmann.
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More ideas for funding Ohio's schools
At its meeting this month, the State Board of Education's school funding subcommittee approved for dissemination a draft of Toward Recommendations for School Funding Reform in Ohio (see
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Five ways to do right by Ohio's students
A post from guest blogger and Fordham writer and researcher??Emmy Partin.
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Achieving Teacher and Principal Excellence: A Guidebook for Donors
Andrew J. RotherhamPhilanthropy Roundtable2008
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Herrmann to join Fordham-Ohio policy team
Dr. Suzannah Herrmann will join the Thomas B. Fordham Institute as Director for Ohio Programs and Policy on Sept. 8.
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Plotting School Choice: The Challenges of Crossing District Lines
Erin DillonEducation SectorAugust 2008
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