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Just how top-heavy are some of Ohio's school districts?
Earlier this year the Brookings Institution and the Greater Ohio Policy Center garnered attention from both gubernatorial
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Special Ohio Gadfly: Summer reading edition
For many of you, July means vacation time. There's nothing better to do during those long flights, layovers, hours in the sand, or just ?stay-cations? in the backyard hammock than catch up on reading.
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The proficiency illusion, Empire State edition
Almost three years ago, Fordham and the Northwest Evaluation Association published a landmark study, The Proficiency Illusion, which found that state “proficiency cut scores” varied tremendously, not just from state to state but also within states.
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Curing Baumol's Disease: In Search of Productivity Gains in K-12 Schooling
Paul Hill and Marguerite RozaCenter on Reinventing Public EducationJuly 2010
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Did you know? Fiscal impact of raising student-teacher ratios in Ohio
Teacher layoffs are a hot topic nowadays, as are the dire warnings about what will happen if teachers are let go.??
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Common Core standards best most states' standards, including Ohio's
Last month, Ohio became one of the first states to adopt the Common Core State Standards in math and English language arts (ELA). According to a new report from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, that was a smart move.
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Ohio stands to gain more from RttT than Edujobs bill
There has been much speculation about Obey's obviously divisive (and
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Ohio's Education Reform Challenges: Lessons from the Frontlines
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute has deep roots in Dayton, Ohio and has long been immersed in Ohio education policy, particularly as it?relates to charter schools. Debates around charter schools ? their role, their efficacy, even their right to exist ? are hot and contentious in the Buckeye State, perhaps as much so as anywhere else in the nation.
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Lessons from Ohio's frontlines
In Fordham’s customary role as a bumptious ed-reform think tank and advocacy shop, it’s unusual to engage in the real work of transforming schools and educating children. But our home state of Ohio has blessed us with many opportunities to get down and dirty in real-world education-reform struggles affecting real kids in a real place.