Making a Difference? The Effects of Teach for America in High School

Zeyu Xu, Jane Hannaway, and Colin TaylorThe Urban Institute and CALDERApril 2007 (Revised March 2009)

Get some Ohio Gadfly

While I usually report on the national Education Gadfly, don't be confused: we have a sister publication called the

State cuts would set back online learning in Ohio

Online learning is the fastest-growing sector in education. In the fall of 2008, 44 states reported offering significant full-time or supplemental learning opportunities for students. Ohio has been a leader in moving toward this powerful educational innovation, but it risks sliding backwards when it comes to cyber charters.

Evaluation of the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program: Impacts After Three Years

Patrick Wolf, Babette Gutmann, Michael Puma, Brian Kisida, Lou Rizzo, Nada EissaInstitute of Education SciencesMarch 2009

Ohio governor's proposal for charter school funding a head scratcher

Much has been much written about the challenges of understanding Ohio Gov. Strickland's school-funding plan. For example, the Akron Beacon Journal asked, why some "wealthy districts receive more state money than much poorer ones?

Ohio earns a D-plus in use of technology in schools

Ohio, birthplace of the Wright brothers, Thomas Edison, and Neil Armstrong has received a D-plus in the use of technology in education (see here), according to an Education Week survey.

Ohio schools can expect to see federal stimulus dollars soon

Federal stimulus dollars will begin flowing into the state as early as this week, according to State Superintendent Deborah Delisle.

Do term limits dumb down the political dialogue in Ohio?

Have term-limits hurt public policy in Ohio? When term limits were passed by Ohio voters in 1992 the idea was simple: they promised relief from mediocre, self-interested incumbents and partisan legislatures stuck in gridlock. Term limits were intended to create more competitive elections while also creating citizen legislatures.

Ohio's two different directions in online learning

After explosive growth in online learning options in Ohio and nationally, the state could soon be poised to take a huge step backward. Governor Strickland's proposed budget would cut funding substantially to Ohio's charter schools, including cybercharters.

Ohio at the crossroads--more of the same or a new approach?

Gov. Ted Strickland's education plan calls for "modernizing" Ohio's K-12 education system, but perversely his "evidence-based" approach to school funding would likely scuttle his efforts to pull Ohio primary-secondary education into the 21st century.

Ohio at a crossroads

A lot of people have been calling Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland's schools proposal????a "bold" new way to approach education in the state. He'll take us to "world class" educational status.

2007-2008 Annual Report on Ohio Community Schools

Ohio Department of EducationJanuary 2009

Developing Early Literacy: Report of the National Early Literacy Panel

National Institute for Literacy and National Center for Family Literacy2008

Beyond Tinkering in Ohio

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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?

Beyond Tinkering: Creating Real Opportunities for Today's Learners and for Generations of Ohioans to Come

Ohio Grantmakers ForumJanuary 2009

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.

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.

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:

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.

Ohio: The Incubator of Education Reformers

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Ohio: lower paid teachers teaching poor kids

Or so a study released yesterday by the Education Trust has found.

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.

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.

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.

A Child-Centered Solution to School Finance in Ohio

Brian GottlobThe Buckeye InstituteDecember 2008

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?

Weighted student funding in Ohio

Facing the Future: Financing Productive Schools

Center on Reinventing Public Education, School Finance Redesign ProjectPaul T. Hill, Marguerite Roza, and James HarveyDecember 2008

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.