The debate surrounding for-profit corporations in education is often highly polarized (especially in Ohio): For-profits are cast as either heroes or villains, but seldom anywhere in between.
If one ever doubted the need to improve science and math education in this country, performance on international tests should be motivation enough. On the 2009 PISA mathematics exam, 17 countries scored higher than the US and 12 scored higher than the US in science.
Four months ago, Michael Horn and Heather Staker released a white paper, “The Rise of K-12 Blended Learning.” In it, they warned policymakers of the need to support blended learning—education that splits students’ time between the teacher-led classroom and the digital realm&mdas
Do charter schools skim the top students from traditional public schools?
This week, I made my first trip to visit our Ohio team since joining Fordham last year. I found a lot to make me very hopeful about the Buckeye State, as well as seeing things that made clear to me just how difficult the challenges are there.
One small step for Georgia, one giant step backwards for charter schools
When it comes to school-board elections, the date matters a lot
The NEA leadership changes its stance on teacher evaluations
This morning Indiana State Superintendent Tony Bennett and former Commissioner of Education for the state of Massachusetts (and Fordham board member) David Driscoll spoke to the Ohio Senate Finance Committee about education reforms in their respective states.
Ohio is in the midst of a cosmic tussle around the future of its charter school program.
The status of the education of Hispanic students in the US is a hot topic of discussion. In this week's Ohio Education Gadfly, I reviewed a report from the Department of Education, Winning the Future: Improving Education for the Latino Community.
Local controllers, put away the pitchforks
Visualize the programs, then attack the policies holding them back
Just how much does an extra year of school buy you?
Fordham’s Vice President for Ohio Programs and Policy Terry Ryan will testify to the Ohio Senate Finance Committee later today about HB 153, the pending biennial budget bill. You can read his full prepared remarks online here.
Fordham's Vice President for Ohio Programs and Policy Terry Ryan testified to the Ohio Senate Finance Committee today about HB 153, the pending biennial budget bill.? You can read his full prepared remarks online here. In short, he ? and the Fordham Institute ?
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute (and its sister organization, the Fordham Foundation) has worked in its home state of Ohio since the late 1990s on a range of school-reform issues, focusing much time and attention on the state’s charter school program.
Steve Farkas is veteran public opinion researcher, co-founder of the FDR Group, and author of the Fordham Institute’s recent report, Yearning to Break Free: Ohio Superintendents Speak. The following was written in response to a re
When Gov. Kasich first introduced his biennial budget for Ohio over a month ago, it was quickly apparent that he and his administration were serious about overhauling the state’s poorest-performing schools.
Ohio recently received distinction from the National Institute for Early Education Research in its State of Preschool 2010 report, but not in a good way.
This report from the Center on Education Policy (CEP) is an update to previous research that tracked the number of schools that had not achieved Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) as outlined in NCLB.
