The following is a real-life excerpt from a standardized assessment that Ohio plans to put to K–2 kids—and the only piece of this Gladfly that is 100 percent true.
Enticing our top college graduates to teach in America’s classrooms is a serious challenge, bordering on an epidemic in some of our poorer communities and neighborhoods.
The New York Times published a semi-balanced story today on the growth of the private school-choice movement
Starting in the 2014-15 school year, Ohio’s schools will fully implement the Common Core State Standards and the PARCC exams--online assessments aligned to the Common Core. As the Buckeye State draws nearer to lift off for these new academic standards and tests, school districts are ratcheting up their technological infrastructure and capacity.
Much has happened in the charter sector in the last twenty years, but the laws ruling its governance largely remain the same
Review by Terry Ryan of Fordham's latest report
Evaluating teachers to gauge their impact on student achievement is a necessary reform.
Ohio’s urban school districts, like many others across the country, face a slow burning governance crisis.
Fordham’s new policy brief by Adam Emerson, “Governance in the Charter School Sector: Time for a Reboot,” tackles the governance issue head-on.
Richard (Dick) Ross was sworn into Monday by State Board of Education President Debe Terhar as Ohio’s 37th State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
This Q&A with T.J. Wallace, the executive director for Dayton Liberty Academies, is the sixth of our seven-part series on school leadership.
As the Buckeye State draws nearer to lift off for Common Core standards and tests, school districts are ratcheting up their technological infrastructure and capacity.
The Fordham Institute has been engaged in a wide range of conversations recently, ranging from gifted-student education to Common Core to charter school quality.
In a recent report, From High School to the Future: The Challenge of Senior Year in Chicago Public Schools, The University of Chicago’s Consortium on Chicago School Research tackles the question of whether high school students’ entire senior year is one large case of senioritis.
Ohio’s urban school districts, like many others across the country, face a slow burning governance crisis.
Virtually no accountability measures exist in most of the nation’s special-education voucher programs, including the largest such program in the United States, Florida’s McKay Scholarship for Students with Disabilities
Ohio swears in Richard Ross as new state superintendent March 25, 2013 in Columbus.
Re-examining the College Board's AP data for Midwestern states
A recap of Fordham's visit to Ohio's lone charter dedicated to serving gifted students
Senate Bill 243, while a step in the right direction, does not go far enough
In the latest dust-up over the Common Core, the inclusion of some (
With new data arises new hope
Better than we thought, actually
Terry Ryan was a guest of the Ohio League of Women Voters today during their annual Statehouse Day, participating in a panel session on education funding in Ohio with Dr. William Phillis, Executive Director of The Ohio Coalition for Equity & Adequacy of School Funding.
Ohio's college-bound students do well, but room aplenty to improve
Strong authorizers can improve charter school quality
The National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) publishes an annual report that collects self-reported survey data from authorizers, which indicate the extent to which they comply with the “Index of Essential Practices.”
Whatever happens next, and however disappointing that litigation may be, at least the Alabama Supreme Court corrected what was a mockery of the legislative process
