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How Blended Learning Can Improve the Teaching Profession
Online learning meets the Opportunity Culture
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Charter Schools
Education’s Fiscal Cliff, Real or Perceived?
Charter schools: Underfunded after all these years
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Curriculum & Instruction
A testimony on the Common Core standards
The following is Kathleen Porter-Magee's testimony to the Wisconsin State Legislature on the Common Core standards
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Charter Schools
Longing for the Holy Grail
Jeff Murray vividly reminds us what it's like to lose the school-choice lottery
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Charter Schools
No longer a boy’s world: Boys and special education
Wayward Sons, a recent report published by the policy think tank the Third Way, finds that the average girl’s educational and career outcomes have improved over time, while boys tend to be faring worse.
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School funding and poverty in the suburbs
When Ohio Governor John Kasich released his “Achievement Everywhere” school funding plan in late February it was widely criticized for “stealing from the poor and giving to the rich.”
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Charter Schools
Losing the school choice lottery and what it means for one family
Yesterday, I spent all day hitting the Refresh button on my email account. Probably 653 times. Why? Because the one school that we wanted for our children for next year was to announce its lottery results to those lucky few who would be chosen. 12 or 13 slots for sixth grade, out of an application pool of several hundred (wish I knew exactly how many).
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Charter Schools
Video of "Always Reformed, Always Reforming" event now available
Did you miss Ohio's recent event? A video is now available!
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Implementation of the Common Core, Third Grade Reading Guarantee, other reforms hinges on leadership
Recap of today's panel discussion around the findings from Fordham's survey of superintendents
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Charter Schools
Religious schools, the ADA, and the Justice Department
The Justice Department has taken school-voucher policy to unstable ground
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
Pandering beats hostage-taking
When a Michigan House committee approved a measure that would allow students to skip Algebra 2 if they instead take a tec
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Time for Change: A New Federal Strategy to Prepare Disadvantaged Students for College
Brookings says: Trash the TRIO programs
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Charter Schools
By the Company It Keeps: The U.S. Department of Education
This interview with the United States Department of Education is the third and final installment in our Common Core testing consortia series
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Curriculum & Instruction
By the Company It Keeps: Smarter Balanced
The second installment of the testing-consortia series is a conversation with Smarter Balanced
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Curriculum & Instruction
By the Company It Keeps: PARCC
The inaugural installment of By the Company It Keeps, an interview series with some of ed reform’s most important contributors
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Charter Schools
Trashing Success
The Dayton Early College Academy (DECA) is Dayton’s highest performing high school (district or charter), but is being trashed by a Columbus organization.
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Charter Schools
Voucher lessons in the Louisiana decision
With potential tactics still in play to sustain the voucher expansion, it is likely that this ruling will simply be a pothole on the road to voucher expansion in Louisiana
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Curriculum & Instruction
What Does It Really Mean to Be College and Work Ready? The Mathematics and English Literacy Required of First Year Community College Students
Low standards, low expectations
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Charter Schools
Choices and Challenges: Charter School Performance in Perspective
A tricky line of research gets worthy treatment
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Charter Schools, Advanced Education
The first step is admitting you have a problem
Our Gadfly readers won’t
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Charter Schools
Louisiana vouchers need more to grow
About 8,000 children had already been promised vouchers for next year when the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled its method of funding unconstitutional
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Charter Schools
Portfolio management in the suburbs
Few school systems have embraced a crisis of opportunity quite like the school system in Reynoldsburg, Ohio.
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Charter Schools
Coalition of high performing charter schools discusses laws with Senate
A coalition that included high performing charter schools from Cleveland, Columbus and Dayton testified in front of the Senate Finance Committee’s Education Subcommittee on May 7th.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Limitless: Education, The Reynoldsburg Way
A profile feature article about the Reynoldsburg City School District
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