Okay, I know I'm about the 31,487th person to pick up on this, but there's one factoid in the 2009 Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup poll of Americans' attitudes toward public schools that is driving me especially nutty.
Terry Ryan of our Ohio offices offers a concise explanation of our Ohio 2009 Education Report Card Analysis in this video.
Here in Ohio, the annual report card release from the Ohio Department of Education is like Christmas.
Since 2003, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute has been analyzing the academic performance of schools in our hometown of Dayton and in other Ohio cities. We continued that analysis this year, taking a close look at the local report card data released by the Ohio Department of Education yesterday (see here).
Teachers and administrators arrive at Columbus Collegiate Academy by 7am.
Each year the Thomas B. Fordham Institute conducts an analysis of urban school performance in Ohio. Read the findings for Ohio's Big 8 schools for the 2008-09 school year.
Winning the award for pretty much the least surprising news ever is that the National Education Association (NEA) has slammed President Obama's Race to the Top (RttT) initiative, a $4.35 billion competitive grant program fo
School-choice foes in the Buckeye State are getting smarter about the strategies they employ to undermine the choice movement.???? Since the birth of charters here in 1998 and vouchers in 2005, opponents--namely Democrats, teacher unions, and the education establishment--have fought a "districts = good, choice = bad" fight.????
An editorial in the Dayton Daily News from this Monday argued that Ohio should bring Teach For America (TFA) into the state.
An op-ed by Cleveland State University education professor Karl Wheatley in the August 9 Cleveland Plain Dealer argues that the pursuit of improved student achievement in our public schools is largely a waste of time (see here).
While Ohio's higher education cyber-learning landscape is firmly established (see here), the K-12 cyber-school landscape is still in its infancy. Of Ohio's 1.7 million students, 23,000 were enrolled full-time in one of the state's 28 cybercharters in 20-2008.
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute and the Ohio Grantmakers Forum, with the support of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, are hosting a one-day conference, "World-Class Academic Standards for Ohio," in Columbus October 5.
Ohio may be lagging in the numbers of students taking Advanced Placement courses, although students who do take the AP science tests are among the top scorers nationally, according to a recent survey.
The National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) recently released a report, Quality, Diversity and Choice: the Value of Multiple Charter Authorizing Options (see here), which outlines various types of charter school authoriz
Ohio intern Rachel Roseberry wrote this guest post.
Executive Office of the President, Council of Economic AdvisersJuly 2009
By guest blogger Ohio Policy & Research Intern Matt Walsh
The dust has finally settled on a long and contentious legislative battle over education reform in Ohio.
Alan Vanneman, Linda Hamilton, Janet B. Anderson, and Taslima RahmanNational Center for Education StatisticsJuly 2009
Jesse RothsteinPrinceton University and National Bureau of Economic ResearchFebruary 2010 (anticipated)
Sometimes you have to take one step backward to go two steps forward. That's more or less what happened in New York State when the clock struck midnight on July 1, the long-scheduled date for "sunset" of mayoral control of Gotham's schools.
Joan Baratz-SnowdenCenter for American ProgressJune 2009
Consider that these sorts of politics might be in play. There's little doubt that the Obama political operation will want Governor Strickland to still be Governor Strickland in 2012. And there's little doubt that Governor Strickland sure could use several??
Who better to report on the ???????brain drain??????? than college students themselves?????
Today's Ohio Education Gadfly is our last regular issue before a short summer break, so you don't want to miss it.????
Policies aimed at creating and implementing better academic standards are spreading across the nation like a firestorm. Ohio is no exception to these winds of change. In the Buckeye State, the governor's budget proposal and the House-passed version of H.B.
The Fordham Institute's latest report on how young Ohioans view their state-it's really nice but they are looking for jobs and Ohio is hurting on this front-has received an astounding reception.
