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Brain Hubs and Manufacturing Centers in the Fourth District
Reviews a research brief attempting to identify "brain hubs" in Ohio.
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An Opportunity Worth Pursuing
Fordham's new Vice President for Ohio Policy and Advocacy pens his inaugural address
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Staffing Design: The Missing Key to Teacher Quality 2.0
As part of the AEI Teacher Quality 2.0 series, the authors of this paper take on the delicate issue of school-staffing design.
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The Most Interesting School District in America? Douglas County’s Pursuit of Suburban Reform
We all know the story: the team that's always way back in the standings employs a brilliant new strategy to try to close the gap between itself and the wealthy powerhouses.
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Common Core testimony before the Tennessee Senate Education Committee
The following is the text from Mike Petrilli's testimony to the Tennessee Senate Education Committee on the Common Core, delivered on September 20, 2013.
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Walton's newest recruit: Marc Sternberg
Marc Sternberg—a senior deputy chancellor in the New York City school system since 2010, a stalwart s
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The Redesign of Urban School Systems: Case Studies in District Governance
This collection of case studies from the Center for Reform of School Systems’s Donald McAdams and the Broad Foundation’s Dan Katzir, intended for use in school-board-training institutes, explores the strategies used by twelve governance teams to implement major, district-wide reforms in nine of the nation’s largest school districts (four of which won the Broad Prize for Urban
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The Educational Value of Field Trips
This study reports on the first large-scale, randomized-control trial measuring the educational value of field trips. In 2011, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art opened in Arkansas and, because of the high demand for tours, the authors were able to randomly select student groups to go. They matched participating groups with control groups based on similar grade level and demographics.
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The Condition of College and Career Readiness 2013: Ohio
ACT recently released individual state reports that reviewed student performance on the 2012-2013 ACT college readiness assessment.
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Links and broken links: On the relationship between proficiency, progress, and poverty
Schools can and do help disadvantaged students learn.
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Parents! How you can use Ohio’s new A-F school report cards
Ohio's A-F school report cards can help parents discern quality.
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Curriculum & Instruction
The Algebra Imperative: Assessing Algebra in a National and International Context
This valuable paper from the Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings sounds an important alarm: “The danger is that grade inflation, the often discussed phenomenon of students receiving higher and higher grades for mediocre academic achievement, has been joined by course inflation.
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Ohio Pensions Reform in Cleveland: New Teachers Beware
Unfunded liabilities accrued from teacher retirement costs have burdened states and districts to the tune of at least $390 billion (and perhaps as high as one trillion dollars). That amount is projected to swell in the next decade if states do not implement reforms.
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Can education and child service leaders work together to stabilize schools and communities?
Community and human service agency leaders gathered this morning in Columbus to discuss student mobility in Ohio’s schools (when students transfer schools for reasons other than customary promotion).
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Early Start: Preschool Politics in the United States
Preschool policy is a fragmented hodgepodge, writes Andrew Karch, as he traces early-education policy since the 1970s. He starts with President Nixon’s veto of the Comprehensive Child Development Act—for some, a missed opportunity; for others, the beginning of the private and public program-mix we have today.
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Sustained Progress: New Findings About the Effectiveness and Operation of Small Public High Schools in New York City
Bloomberg’s education legacy
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The civil rights movement and education reform
The fight for civil rights and empowerment didn’t happen overnight, but rather one lunch counter at a time, reminds reverend H.K. Matthews in an editorial supporting the new Alabama Accountability Act.
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All or nothing on teacher accountability
Someday, when they write the history of the education-reform movement, future scholars will tug their chins in puzzlement as they ponder today’s obsession with high-stakes teacher evaluations.
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Back to school ed-policy short reviews
Summer vacation is over for many of Ohio’s students. As they head off to class, you may find yourself with some extra time to catch up on reading. Looking for suggestions? The Fordham staff is here to help you find some good reads.Private Enterprise and Public Education: Strange Bedfellows or Natural Allies?Angel Gonzalez
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
Testimony to the Michigan House Education Subcommittee on Common Core Standards
Prepared for Delivery on August 28, 2013
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Classroom, Inc. hiring a Chief Officer of Educational Partnerships
This person will be charged with expanding the firm’s reach.
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March 23: YEP-DC's Policy to Practice conference
Are you a young D.C. professional with $20 and a passion for education? Meet others of your kind at YEP-DC’s Policy to Practice conference on March 23, 2013. The conference is designed to establish a space where education professionals can engage with others around the District on matters of educational research, policy, and practice.
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March 22: CAP Governance Event
Over the last twenty years, flagging achievement and disjointed education governance have led policymakers to explore alternative ways of organizing schools, like mayoral control, and to rethink district organization and the role of school boards and districts.
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The Brown Center seeks a communications coordinator/manager
Brookings’s Brown Center on Education Policy is looking for an entrepreneurial, organized, self-starting communications professional with at least three years of experience to develop and implement a comprehensive communications strategy. To learn more, visit their website.
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Early Career award conferred to EEPS alums Cory Koedel and Katherine Strunk
Congratulations to Cory Koedel and Katherine Strunk, both recipients of American Education Research Association’s “Early Career” award&m