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Charter Schools
A school for the gifted: Menlo Park Academy
A feature article about Menlo Park Academy, Ohio’s sole charter school whose emphasis lies in educating gifted students.
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Liked but little used: Ohio’s rural districts and blended learning
Blended learning: It’s the talk of the town and perceived favorably, but it hasn’t found widespread use…yet.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Fordham on the airwaves and in print
The Common Core. Portfolio management. Superintendents’ views on education reform. If you’ve missed any of Fordham's recent research reports or events on these timely and relevant topics in Ohio education reform, read the notes below and click on the links!
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Curriculum & Instruction
Liked but little used: Ohio’s rural districts and blended learning
Blended learning: It’s the talk of the town and perceived favorably, but it hasn’t found widespread use…yet.
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Charter Schools
New homes for D.C. charter schools
Charters will soon be able to lease as many as sixteen former or soon-to-be-closed public school buildings
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Charter Schools
Top Ten Takeaways: Common Assessments (Part 2)
The top five takeaways from his interviews with USED, PARCC, and Smarter Balanced
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Curriculum & Instruction
Top Ten Takeaways: Common Assessments (Part 1 of 2)
Takeaways from last week's interviews with USED, PARCC, and Smarter Balanced on the move to Common Core-aligned assessments
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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