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.
How do Ohio’s science standards stack up, in comparison to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)?
A report from the Center for American Progress (CAP) sheds light on the poor quality of school governance in the United States.
Fordham contributes to news articles related to charter school accountability and retaining Ohio's graduates
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.
Of seven badly performing charter schools cut off by their authorizer, four have been reprieved
According to the Times, ability grouping is back, after being unfairly stigmatized in th
State NAEP gains are all over the map—but we still don’t know why
Viewing education through the prism of Big Data
Education Trust discovers high achievers
When it comes to charter sponsoring, Maryland is in the Hall of Shame
The CMSD school board will vote tomorrow night to approve the hiring of up to nine TFA members.
Peter Cunningham responds to an anti-Common Core article in the New York Times
Student surveys, if done well, are a surprisingly reliable source of information
Dayton's income levels in comparison to other Ohio cities
After a judge ruled last year that Los Angeles was in violation of the Stull Act—a forty-year-old state law signed by Governor Ronald Reagan requiring that
No easy choices here
While there are still a couple of steps to go before it is law (everybody sing along), Ohio’s next biennial budget was voted out of the Senate Finance committee yesterday and heads now to the full Senate with nearly 1000 pages of amendments.
The intersection of school and community
From bureaucracy to performance
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Read about the journey of Bianca Speranza, a 2013 Teach for America Corp member in Southwest Ohio.
