Just as the education-reform movement is starting to figure out how to use test-score data in a more sophisticated way, the Obama administration and its allies in the civil-rights community want to take us back to the Stone Age on the use of school discipline data. This is an enormous mistake that repeats almost exactly the nuance-averse way we looked at test-score data in the early days of NCLB.
First of a two-part analysis looking at early indicators to future success.
Teacher evaluations; Dude, Who Moved My Alternative School?; and the IRS all feature in today's clips.
There’s not a ton of stories today, but those few clips are pure gold:
Common Core, homeschooling, and the downstream effects of legislative changes lead the news today.
The most interesting story coming out of the landmark Vergara and Harris decisions is the coming irresistible
Teach For America (TFA) is growing. In 2013–14, some 11,000 corps members reached more than 750,000 students in high-need classrooms around the land. Yet TFA-ers remain a drop in the bucket of 3 million teachers.
Following the watershed Vergara case in California, last week an advocacy group filed the first “copycat” lawsuit, this one challenging teacher-tenure laws in New York City.
The tone is a bit condescending, but we’ll take the media hit: StateImpact Ohio takes a look at Fordham’s Lacking Leaders report. (StateImpact Ohio)
Digging into the effect that TFA teachers may (or may not) have on their non-TFA colleagues.
Will highly-touted (and heavily-funded) STEM skills translate into STEM jobs for graduates?
Nobody loves higher taxes, but does a shift in the tax structure really spell doom for Ohio's public schools?
The Education Foundation, in partnership with the British Department for Education, is hosting the UK's first Education Reform Summit on July 9 and 10 in London. It will provide an opportunity to hear from inspirational school leaders, teachers, and politicians who are transforming education systems across the world.
Parents make educational choices in the best interests of their children, but to many school districts involved in open enrollment, it's only about numbers on a spreadsheet.
Rounding up Ohio education news for the week ahead of the holiday. Happy 4th!
When it comes to educational options, there are sundry open doors available to the nation’s more affluent kids—and far fewer for their poorer peers to walk through.
One often hears anecdotes of teachers feeling undervalued and, at times, isolated in their profession. The most recent OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey—a study that homes in on the working conditions of teachers and learning environments of schools, focusing on lower secondary education—confirms the narrative.
This very timely new study out of CALDER examines whether a tenure-reform policy initiated in New York City in 2009–10 impacted the rate at which tenure was awarded and the composition of the teaching force. The study tracked the tenure review process for all probationary teachers in NYC public schools between 2007–08 and 2012–13.
Founded in 1998, Houston-based YES Prep has set the pace for college completion among graduates of so-called “no excuses” charter schools. Among its 1,700 alumni, 72 percent are either still persisting in college or have graduated.
Egged on by viral posts and comedians mocking confusing homework assignments, parents are becoming increasingly leery of the Common Core–aligned approach to mathematics instruction.
The usual roundup and commentary on education news stories from around the state.
Third grade reading, Common Core, fiscal oversight, academic oversight, and teacher union discontent in today's news.
Voucher program data is starting to emerge in Ohio, and everyone is taking notice.
A fully rounded round-up of news today - city, suburb, rural; budgets, teacher contracts, assessments; district, private, charter. Enjoy!
