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Ohio Gadfly Daily News 6-17-14
I expect third grade reading scores to be big news for the rest of the week. So here's the calm before the storm...with some TGRG stories in the mix.
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Ohio Gadfly Daily News 6-14-14
Craziest news clips ever - from the sublime to the ridiculous and back again.
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Ohio Gadfly Daily News 6-13-14
Fordham’s Chad Aldis peers into the future of accountability in a world of expanding parental choice. (RedefineED)
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Ohio Gadfly Daily News 6-12-14
We're all over Ohio from the Statehouse to the courtroom to the Kingdom of the Bus Drivers today.
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Choose the wisest wonk
Admission into New York City’s most selective public high schools is based on middle schoolers’ results on a single exam: the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test.
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Diplomas Count 2014: Motivation Matters: Engaging Students, Creating Learners
For this year’s “Diplomas Count,” an annual Education Week special issue, researchers surveyed teachers and administrators for their opinions on student engagement in their schools.
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Ohio Gadfly Daily News 6-11-14
Common Core, bad actors, public records, the MBR, and Head Start all feature in today's education news.
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Ohio Gadfly Daily News 6-10-14
From the State Board to the Statehouse; from Canton to Cleveland to Cincinnati; lots of important education news to cover today.
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Ohio’s state legislature fine tunes big reforms
We dig into big legislative changes included in the compromise K-12 education Mid-Biennium Review (MBR) bill.
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Ohio Teacher Evaluation Changes: A Happy Ending?
Ohio's new teacher evaluation protocol is set to see more changes even before the first set are fully phased in. Too much too soon?
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Kudos for Ohio’s report cards
Ohio's report cards get a major approval from wonks and parents alike; blended learning still has a ways to go; voucher application boom; Fordham Ohio's newest staff member.
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Ohio Gadfly Daily News 6-9-14
Busy weekend for education news and opinion, especially in Ohio's big city papers.
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Ohio Gadfly Daily News 6-6-14
Reporting continues across the state in regard to the K-12 education MBR bill and other education legislation moving through the General Assembly.
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Meet Fordham Ohio’s newest addition
Fordham Ohio draws on an experienced teacher to bolster its policy team.
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BRIEFLY NOTED: Keeping poor parents in the dark
The other week, School Choice Ohio sued the Cincinnati and Springfield school districts for their failure to comply with a public-records request.
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Roll Call: The importance of teacher attendance
A new report places Cleveland and Columbus at the top of the naughty list of districts whose teachers are out of the classroom the most.
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Public Rules on Private Schools: Measuring the Regulatory Impact of State Statutes and School Choice Programs
Would a push for greater public accountability to private voucher schools hinder recruitment of new providers?
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Ohio Gadfly Daily News 6-4-14
Legislation, charter authorizing, and business engagement with education in today's issue.
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Rampant teacher absenteeism in Cleveland and Columbus
The National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) released an alarming new report today on teacher absenteeism in America’s urban public schools.
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TFA and Cleveland's demographic problem
Cleveland’s teachers union is in a fit over the district’s increased utilization of Teach For America (TFA) to fill teaching positions. Instead of griping, the labor union should think instead of the larger human-resource crisis the district faces. The district has a myriad of human-resource struggles and, as we’ll see, one of them is its aging workforce.
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Ohio Gadfly Daily News 6-2-14
Graduation time is upon us; we've got a couple of the more interesting stories around graduation as well as some legit education news today.
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Ohio Gadfly Daily News 5-29-14
In case you hadn’t yet heard, Fordham’s Aaron Churchill has a fantastic op-ed in the Dispatch today, who graciously allowed him to rebut the paper's recent report on charter schools and segregation by running the numbers and continuing the impo
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The State of Retirement: Grading America's Public Pension Plans
A new Urban Institute series grades America’s public pension plans on three criteria: whether they place employees on a path to retirement security, create proper incentives to retain a productive workforce, and set aside enough funds to finance the future benefits promised to employees.
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Is Personalized Learning Meeting Its Productivity Promise? Early Lessons from Pioneering Schools
With belts tightening in communities across the land, education leaders are exploring novel ways to stretch the school dollar. One such approach is “personalized learning,” i.e., using technology to tailor coursework to individual students while making better use of teachers’ time.
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No good will come from this
On Friday, the Oklahoma legislature voted overwhelmingly to repeal the Common Core.
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A Tweet-fest on blended learning
I joined the Twittersphere yesterday for a forum on blended learning moderated by Matt Miller, superintendent of Mentor School District in Northeast Ohio.
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Ohio Gadfly Daily News 5-28-14
Fordham’s Chad Aldis appeared on two radio stations in Ohio yesterday, talking up Common Core. First up - WKBN radio in the Youngstown area (Chad comes in about the 30 minute mark on this one).