Roadmap for Next Generation State Accountability Systems
Standards and assessments, meet the third leg in your stool: accountability
Save the Dates: Two September events on Assuring Highly Effective Teachers for All Ohio Students
After a several-month-long debate in the Buckeye State over teacher personnel policies, Ohio now stands at a crossroad. The biennial budget bill (HB 153) calls for the state to develop a model teacher evaluation framework by the end of this year and to adopt policies tying teacher evaluations to other key personnel decisions like dismissal, placement, tenure, and compensation.
Let's talk education reform
Michael J. Petrilli, Chester E. Finn, Jr.Checker and Mike: GOP speech writers?
Publishers??? Criteria for the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts and Literacy
Kathleen Porter-MageeHow textbook publishers can walk the CCSS-alignment walk
Learning Time in America: Trends to Reform the American School Calendar: A Snapshot of Federal, State, and Local Action
Chris IrvineCut education costs, not education
Making Teacher Incentives Work: Lessons from North Carolina's Teacher Bonus Program
School-level rewards find unlikely supporters
Class Size: What Research Says and What it Means for State Policy
Findings that won?t please the advocates
Unexpected but outstanding choice for Ohio's state schools chief
Emmy L. PartinIn a surprise move, Ohio's State Board of Education today tapped Interim Superintendent Stan Heffner as the state's new schools chief.?? Heffner never actually applied for the job when it opened up last spring and instead announced he'd be leaving Ohio in August for a job with ETS.??
Ohio's state supe search: seeking top-notch talent on the cheap?
Emmy L. PartinYesterday, two days before the state board of education was slated to announce Ohio's new state superintendent, a second of the three finalists for the job removed himself from consideration. And the word on the street is that he exited the race over money, something the board could have prevented.
Compelling more people to care about ed reform requires compelling narrative
Jamie Davies O'LearyToday in his piece, ?Understanding upper-middle-class parents,? Mike asked one question in particular that stood out to me: Can affluent parents (who are satisfied with their own kids' schools) be energized to fight on behalf of school reform for the poor? He goes on:
Negotiating for Change: Modifying Collective Bargaining Agreements for School Turnarounds
Clip on this tool belt before hammering out a new CBA
Strained Schools Face Bleak Future: Districts Foresee Budget Cuts, Teacher Layoffs, and a Slowing of Education Reform Efforts
Chris TessoneNot enough money, too much conventional thinking
Improving College Performance and Retention the Easy Way: Unpacking the ACT Exam
Janie ScullRobust study draws questionable conclusions
Briefly Noted: A showdown of self interests
The NEA may want to lose weight, but it can?t find a diet it likes
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.
Ohio's Biennial Budget Sets the Conditions for Education Success
Emmy L. Partin, Terry RyanCharter schools, teacher quality, school accountability, and more
Common Core: Not a communist plot, after all
Maybe, just maybe, conservatives think common standards are a good idea too