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Ohio's Biennial Budget Sets the Conditions for Education Success
Charter schools, teacher quality, school accountability, and more
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Common Core: Not a communist plot, after all
Maybe, just maybe, conservatives think common standards are a good idea too
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Failing Liberty 101: How We Are Leaving Young Americans Unprepared for Citizenship in a Free Society
Reviving the American Dream
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Achievement Gaps: How Hispanic Students in Public Schools Perform in Mathematics and Reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress
Big gains for all but a yawning rift remains
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Ohio's Biennial Budget Sets the Conditions for Education Success
Gov. John Kasich is slated to sign Ohio’s biennial budget today (it’s a 5,000 page document), legislation that not only appropriates funding for the Buckeye State until 2013 but that also includes hundreds of pages of education-policy changes—most of which will move Ohio forward in significant ways.
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Observations from a state budget debate newbie
When I came on with Fordham it was in the summer of 2009, just after a notoriously difficult budget battle during which Fordham unsuccessfully fought against then Gov. Strickland's inputs-heavy ?evidence-based? model of school funding, though successfully fought against the Governor's and lawmakers' attempts to decimate charter schools (among lots of other battles).