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Charter Schools
Choice always beats coercion
As “school choice” laws go, Missouri's is sloppy and coercive
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Testimony to Indiana
Kathleen Porter-Magee's testimony urging Indiana to stay the course with the Common Core
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Charter Schools
Give Louisiana voters the chance to redefine public education funding
Louisiana voters are used to making the hard decisions about public education that divide their lawmakers
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
Keeping our standards up
The Washington Post profiled Josh Powell, a homeschooled young man, who—having never written an essay or learned that South Africa was a country—had to take several years of rem
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Curriculum & Instruction
Hijacking Ohio’s future: State legislators must reject House Bill 237
Ohio’s legislators must reject House Bill 237, which seeks to void the State Board of Education’s decision to adopt the Common Core academic standards in English language arts and math.
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Charter Schools
A decade of charter school growth, but where to now?
More than 100,000 students in Ohio attended a public charter school during the past school year
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Charter Schools
Good charter schools are good investments
Few reporters and analysts have documented the challenges charters face in entering the multi-trillion-dollar municipal bond market
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Charter Schools
Summer reading: On underemployment, social mobility, M-learning, and more
This summer in Ohio has been oppressively hot and (for some reason) rainy. So check out these short reviews and reading recommendations from the Columbus team!
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Charter Schools
Caps on choice are counterproductive
The perseverance of a Wisconsin mother brings the shortcomings of many school-choice programs into sharp focus
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Trying not to trip over the changes afoot
North Carolina’s new budget, passed late Wednesday night and headed to Governor McCrory, has carved out dollars for a voucher program for low-income students
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Charter Schools
12 years; 12 lessons
After twelve years with the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, Terry Ryan will be leaving the organization and the Buckeye state.
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Testimony to the Arkansas House and Senate Interim Committees on Education
Arkansas: Don't give up on the Common Core!
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A dose of reality: education professionals show the way in discussion of the Common Core
State Representative Gerald Stebelton and the Pickerington Chamber of Commerce convened an education summit this morning at Ohio University’s Pickerington Center
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Charter Schools
A charter incubator goes to the capital
For a state in which charter school performance has outpaced student gains at traditional public schools, Tennessee should have a better charter law
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Has SIG improved school performance in Ohio?
Has the U.S. government’s $3.5 billion School Improvement Grant (SIG) program delivered as promised? The data from Ohio indicates that the answer is no—but with a glaring exception.
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Charter Schools
Sunshine and school vouchers: How Louisiana gets it right
With the exception of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship, no other school-voucher program has endured so many growing pains as the Louisiana voucher program
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Charter Schools
Funding an expansion of pre-K in Columbus
The provision allocates 1 mil or approximately $42.5 million over 5 years to pre-K programs.
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Implementation, Implementation, Assessment, Assessment
Despite the tireless efforts of Common Core opponents and their acolytes and funders, few states that initially pledged their troth to these rigorous new standards for English and math are in divorce mode
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S-U-M-M-E-R spells research
StudentsFirst has made a thoughtful contribution to the burgeoning literature on school governance with its new policy brief Change the Leadership, Change the Rules: Improving Schools and Districts through Mayoral and State Governance.
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Charter Schools
Common Ground: Chad Webb
The first entry of our Common Core series features a discussion with Chad Webb from Village Preparatory Academy::Woodland Hills Campus.
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Charter Schools
Governor Kasich signs Columbus education reform bill
A new era dawned today for Columbus’ public education system.
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Charter Schools
Be all you can be and become a board member
A strong business acumen is needed for charter school board members.
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Charter Schools
A study in bad charter school governance
It’s time to talk more about how multi-school networks are governed