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Charter Schools
CREDO study shows quality counts
While the overall news is good for charters, it’s clear that some states are not moving fast enough to adopt quality control
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Charter Schools
Enter the mayor
Columbus' mayor, soon to enter the charter school authorization business, should check out this data viz
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Curriculum & Instruction
How best to integrate content and practices in science
The NGSS gave undue prominence to scientific skills and practices, ultimately underemphasizing content knowledge
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Charter Schools
Dropout recovery charter schools: Dayton’s needles in a very messy haystack
For most of Ohio’s youngsters, school’s out for the summer. But for the girls and boys who have dropped out of school, school may be out for good, with devastating consequences.
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Charter Schools
Taking student mobility from data to action
A panel of project partners met June 20 to discuss the findings and implications of Fordham’s student mobility study, Student Nomads: Mobility in Ohio’s Schools.
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Should Ohio slow down the value-added train for teacher evaluations?
Ohio’s switch to the PARCC exams, and its implications for teachers’ value-added scores
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
From local diplomas to zombie attacks
New York City’s graduation rate dipped very slightly in 2012—information that was
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Strategic Involuntary Transfers and Teacher Performance: Examining Equity and Efficiency
Making lemonade out of lemons
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Diplomas Count 2013: Second Chances: Turning Dropouts into Graduates
One new dropout every thirty-one seconds
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Teacher prep falls short
To improve student learning in Ohio, and in other states, we need to improve the quality of our teaching force
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Charter Schools
Dropout recovery charter schools: Dayton’s needles in a very messy haystack
For most of Ohio’s youngsters, school’s out for the summer. But for the girls and boys who have dropped out of school, school may be out for good, with devastating consequences.
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Ohio’s education leaders’ public engagement in the adoption and early implementation of the Common Core
In recent weeks, some from the anti-Common Core crowd have insinuated that Ohio’s state legislators, the state board of education, and state officials were somehow duped into adopting, or worse yet, covertly adopted the Common Core standards in math and English language arts.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Disappointing science standards, costly teacher pensions, and other notes
How do Ohio’s science standards stack up, in comparison to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)?
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Governing American Education: Why This Dry Subject May Hold the Key to Advances in American Education
A report from the Center for American Progress (CAP) sheds light on the poor quality of school governance in the United States.
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Charter Schools
Fordham in the news: Charter school law and Ohio's brain drain
Fordham contributes to news articles related to charter school accountability and retaining Ohio's graduates
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Charter Schools
Calling all Career Technical Providers - Ohio has a deal for you
Ohio has put the welcome mat out for charter schools that provide career technical education. Building on criteria from the federal Carl D. Perkins Act Ohio’s biennial budget (HB59) provides a significant increase in funding for charter schools that provide career technical courses.
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Charter Schools
A race to the bottom for Indiana’s worst schools
Of seven badly performing charter schools cut off by their authorizer, four have been reprieved
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Curriculum & Instruction
We hate to say "I told you so"
According to the Times, ability grouping is back, after being unfairly stigmatized in th
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The New State Achievement Gap: How Federal Waivers Could Make It Worse—Or Better
State NAEP gains are all over the map—but we still don’t know why
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Curriculum & Instruction
Assessing the Educational Data Movement
Viewing education through the prism of Big Data
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Curriculum & Instruction, Advanced Education
Finding America’s Missing AP and IB Students
Education Trust discovers high achievers
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Charter Schools
One Maryland charter highlights half-broken promise of autonomy
When it comes to charter sponsoring, Maryland is in the Hall of Shame
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Curriculum & Instruction
Welcoming Teach For America another step forward for Cleveland Metropolitan School District
The CMSD school board will vote tomorrow night to approve the hiring of up to nine TFA members.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Muddying the Waters on Common Core
Peter Cunningham responds to an anti-Common Core article in the New York Times
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Just ask the kids: Student surveys and teacher evaluations
Student surveys, if done well, are a surprisingly reliable source of information
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Dayton's slow march into economic irrelevancy
Dayton's income levels in comparison to other Ohio cities