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Charter Schools
Cherishing choice in Ohio
Ohio governor John Kasich's guest post celebrates the state’s newest school-choice initiative, the Income-Based Scholarship Program
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Charter Schools
Mayoral sponsorship: How Columbus is dealing with a growing charter sector
A recent press release from the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools estimated that 920,007 students are currently on a waitlist to attend charter schools, a jump from the previous year’s 610,000.
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Charter Schools
Navigating around icebergs in the sea of charter school finance
Charter school authorizers in Ohio must review the school financials of all authorized schools monthly. But too often authorizers either don’t do this or they do not do it well.
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Charter Schools
The freedom to choose a quality education is a right worth celebrating
A guest column on school choice by Governor Kasich, which highlights some achievements in the recently signed state budget.
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Charter Schools
Ohio kindergarten students now eligible for income-based scholarship for private school
Ohio is the newest state with an income-based scholarship, joining Indiana, Washington DC, and Wisconsin.
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Charter Schools
There’s no disputing charter school demand
In the past year, charter school naysayers have successfully convinced some media outlets to question the actual demand for charters
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Dayton’s teacher practices under the microscope
The Dayton Public Schools, like so many other urban districts, has been in a state of decline.
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Charter Schools
Balancing acts and technology hacks
An Atlantic article by sociology professor Richard Greenwald examines Mayor Michael Blo
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Advanced Education
Informing Students about Their College Options: A Proposal for Broadening the Expanding College Opportunities Project
A better approach to “affirmative action”
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Access to rigor: who gets it, who doesn’t, and what does it mean
Ohio’s Department of Education talks a lot about academic rigor in the K-12 continuum, but does not define it on its own.
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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