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Ohio's biennial budget: What the Senate should keep, fix, and scrap
The Ohio Senate will unveil its version of the state's biennial operating budget early next month.
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Ohio's biennial budget: What the Senate should keep, fix, and scrap
The Ohio Senate will unveil its version of the state’s biennial operating budget early next month.
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National education leaders speak to the Ohio Senate Finance Committee
Last week, Indiana State Superintendent Tony Bennett and former Commissioner of Education for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (and the Fordham Institute’s Ohio committee chair) David Driscoll spoke to the Ohio Senate Finance Committee about education reforms in their respective states.
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National charter school experts implore Ohio Senate to fix charter provisions in state budget bill
The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools and the National Association of Charter School Authorizers have joined the chorus of charter school advocates and others who are calling for the Ohio Senate to fix the charter provisions of HB 153 as passed by the Ohio House.
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An honest look at Ohio's e-schools
“Our blog tough on OH e-schools; Innovation OH report=misleading hit job” – that’s how Bill Tucker, managing director of Education Sector, a nonpartisan education policy think tank based in Washington, D.C., contrasted his organization’s recent blog series about Ohio’s e-schools with an
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Cincinnati teacher evaluation system shows promise
After two years of development, Cincinnati Public Schools recently revealed its new teacher evaluation system, which ties teacher pay to student performance.
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Beyond Good and Evil: Understanding the Role of For-Profits in Education through the Theories of Disruptive Innovation
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.
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Slow off the Mark: Elementary School Teachers and the Crisis in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Education
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.
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The Rise of K-12 Blended Learning: Profiles of emerging models
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
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Fiscal waist-trimming and "collaborative conferencing"
Do charter schools skim the top students from traditional public schools?
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Hope in Ohio
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.
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The long arm of Georgia???s law
One small step for Georgia, one giant step backwards for charter schools
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Election Timing and the Electoral Influence of Interest Groups
When it comes to school-board elections, the date matters a lot
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Briefly Noted: Has the Sun risen in the West?
The NEA leadership changes its stance on teacher evaluations
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Tony Bennett and David Driscoll speak to Ohio Senate Finance Committee
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.
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A cosmic tussle in Ohio around charter-school quality
Ohio is in the midst of a cosmic tussle around the future of its charter school program.
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As Hispanic population grows, so must urgency around improving their educational attainment
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.
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Addressing the tension between national standards and educational innovation
Local controllers, put away the pitchforks
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The Rise of K-12 Blended Learning: Profiles of emerging models
Visualize the programs, then attack the policies holding them back
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Education: Past, Present, and Future Global Challenges
Just how much does an extra year of school buy you?
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