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Performance over time in Big 8 charter and district schools
For the last two weeks we've been doing various analyses of school performance in Ohio's Big 8 district schools and charter schools. Today we dive in a little deeper and look at what happened to low- and high- performing schools over time.
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Students in charters actually outperform district peers, according to this weighted analysis
For the last two weeks the Fordham Ohio team has been highlighting achievement trends in the Buckeye State's ?Big 8? districts (eight largest) and charter schools.
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Charter Schools
E-school performance in the Buckeye State
This week we took a look at what impact, if any, charter authorizer type (e.g., non-profit, educational service center, school district, or university) has on a school's academic performance, how
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The Strategic Management of Charter Schools: Framework and Tools for Educational Entrepreneurs
Pedagogical leaders, meet the business model
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Reaching the Goal: The Applicability and Importance of the Common Core State Standards to College and Career Readiness
College professors like the Common Core?as far as we can tell
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Ohio charter school authorizer outlier deserves to lose right to sponsor schools
As part of our ongoing look at 2010-11 Ohio school
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Performance and growth among Ohio's high-poverty urban schools
On Monday we looked at charter school performance by authorizer type and structure and learned that neither seems to matter much when it comes to school quality.
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Accountability & Testing
The Common Core and the Future of Student Assessment in Ohio
Ohio adopted the Common Core standards in ELA and math in June 2010, but now stands at a crossroad in making sure statewide assessments are aligned to those standards. Ohio is a participating member in two federally funded assessment consortia—the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) and the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Career (PARCC)--but is a decision-maker in neither. This primer outlines both consortia and suggests that Ohio make a decision soon to begin the massive reboot required to realign assessments, professional development, and accountability systems to match the Common Core.
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Improving the odds of success: Ohio should embrace a Common Core assessment consortium now
Getting academic standards right ??? specifying the knowledge and skills that teachers should teach and students should learn ??? is at the heart of just about everything that matters in K-12 education.
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Charter Schools
Academic achievement & growth: a fuller picture of urban school performance
Yesterday, Jamie wrote about both the academic achievement and progress of students in Ohio's urban public schools.?? Today's analysis marries these two performance metrics together.
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From ski slope to a bell curve: Ohio's evolving value-added measure
Ohio has been a national leader in using value-added measures of student academic growth. The current value-added system was piloted in 2007, and in August 2008 value-added was fully integrated into Ohio's academic accountability system.
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How did students in Ohio's urban districts & charters perform (achievement & growth)?
With the help of our friends at Public Impact - who did the data analysis represented by the graphs below ? today we continue our series on Ohio school performance data with a look at student performance in Ohio's ?Big 8? districts (Akron, Canton, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Toledo, and Youngstown) and charter schools.
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Grade Inflation for Education Majors and Low Standards for Teachers: When Everyone Makes the Grade
The proficiency illusion hits higher ed
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Accountability & Testing
2010-11 Ohio Report Card Analysis
Each year, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute conducts an analysis of student achievement in Ohio's Big 8 urban districts and charter schools. 2010-2011's analysis looks at performance, growth (as measured by value-added), growth over time, comparisons between students in district schools, charters (and charters by type and authorizer type), e-schools, and more.
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And we're off: Our annual analysis of Ohio report card data
Today the Ohio Department of Education releases troves of performance data about the state's public schools. Fordham once again provided quick-turnaround, city-by-city analyses of public school performance in the Buckeye state's eight major urban areas.
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Keep an eye out for analyses of achievement in Ohio districts, schools, and charters
Each year, the Fordham Ohio team does an analysis of urban school performance in August when statewide achievement data?are released. We've been doing this analysis for many years, reporting on the number of Ohio students in the Buckeye State's ?Big 8?
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