State Achievement Score Trends Through 2008-09, Part 4: Is Achievement Improving and Are Gaps Narrowing for Title I Students?
Laura JohnsonA tentative, caveat-laden yes
Head of Cleveland NAACP to turn around failing charter school
Jamie Davies O'LearyFile this under pieces of news that confuse my emotions. Rev. Stanley Miller, executive director of the Cleveland NAACP, is leaving that post to take on an area charter school ? a very terrible one to be specific (Marcus Garvey Academy). I am equal parts inspired by this move (Rev. Miller is a 63-year old whose heart is undoubtedly in the right place) and cynical.
If you support Common Core, oppose Arne Duncan's "waivers"
Michael J. PetrilliArnius Duncanus is at it again
Teacher Characteristics and Student Achievement: Evidence from Teach For America
They could be onto something here
Mapping State Proficiency Standards onto the NAEP Scales: Variation and Change in State Standards for Reading and Mathematics, 2005-2009
Daniela FairchildState proficiency rates: Still misleading
How would Ohio fare in Bellwether's teacher effectiveness analysis?
Jamie Davies O'LearyYesterday Bellwether Education Partners released a scorecard that evaluated teacher effectiveness legislation in five different states.
State Superintendent Heffner: Understanding practical Common Core implementation challenges
Terry RyanI had the good fortune to spend time last week with Stan Heffner, Ohio's new state superintendent of public instruction. I enjoyed the conversation mightily because it mostly focused on two things that don't usually get enough attention in education policy conversations ??? teaching and learning.
State Superintendent Heffner: Understanding practical Common Core implementation challenges
Terry RyanI had the good fortune to spend time last week with Stan Heffner, Ohio’s new state superintendent of public instruction. I enjoyed the conversation mightily because it mostly focused on two things that don’t usually get enough attention in education policy conversations – teaching and learning.
State budget impact: voucher and charter expansion
With Ohio’s biennial budget (HB 153) now in effect, it’s time to get into the details to figure out precisely how Ohio’s schools, educators, and students will be affected. Consider two education policy changes included in HB 153 that are aimed at providing more education options for students in low-performing district schools: increasing eligibility for the EdChoice Scho
Keeping Ohio's future: Practical and promising solutions for Ohio's brain drain
Emmy L. PartinOhio lawmakers have introduced a bill aimed at stemming Ohio’s brain drain and keeping college graduates in the state after they earn their degrees. The legislation would allow Ohio college graduates, whether they are Ohio natives or not, who obtain a job in the Buckeye State to have their earned income exempted from
Importing Leaders for School Turnaround
An effective leader is vital to an effective school, especially when that school is a turnaround. Unfortunately, those equipped to lead rapid change in consistently low-performing schools are in short supply. In this report, Public Impact suggests that school leaders be imported from untapped pipelines of talent lying outside of the education sector.
Student Teaching in America
Bianca SperanzaEvery year some 200,000 teacher candidates from 1,400 higher education institutions complete their student teaching requirement. In theory, student teaching is an opportunity for students to combine everything they’ve learned about the profession over the course of their training, and walk away prepared for the classroom.
Inside IMPACT: D.C.'s Model Teacher Evaluation System
Outsiders have envied, emulated, and damned D.C.’s acclaimed teacher-evaluation system, IMPACT. But what is the insiders’ perspective? This report from Ed Sector delivers the answer. Author Susan Headden, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, presents a thorough and balanced perspective on this revolutionary (but still emergent) system.
Charting New Territory: Tapping Charter Schools to Turn Around the Nation's Dropout Factories
Lauren KarchThis report begins with a Cinderella story: high school (the infamous Locke in Los Angeles) meets charter management organization, is taken over, transforms from drop-out factory to a high-performing charter. How widespread should the involvement of charter management organizations be in turning around the nation’s lowest performing high schools?
Gamers rejoice!
How does your opinion compare to the average teacher’s? The fifth annual survey conducted by Harvard’s Program on Education and Governance and Education Next covers a wide variety of education policy issues and found a growing disparity between the views of teachers and the general public.
A billion dollars per student? Sure why not.
Bianca SperanzaBy now I am sure that all of you have heard about the Save our Schools Rally that took place in Washington D.C. last weekend. The rally, organized by teachers, parents, and advocates called for an end to controversial education policies?and to ?put the public back in public schools.?