Online and Blended Learning: A Survey of Policy and Practice from K-12 Schools Around the World
Has anyone got this figured out yet?
Has anyone got this figured out yet?
Surprisingly sound recommendations from the anti-capatalists
Fordham intern and future teacher Matt Kyle reflects on why SB 5 mattered.
Ohio teachers and administrators work tirelessly to deliver an excellent education to the state?s 1.8 million students, said State Superintendent of Public Instruction Stan Heffner at the annual Ohio School Boards Association?s conference earlier this week. So why are fewer than one in three of Ohio?s fourth graders reading at a proficient level (according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress)? Worse, why are achievement scores unimpressive among not only the Buckeye State?s urban districts, but even among wealthier suburban districts, especially in contrast to students internationally?
Ohio teachers and administrators work tirelessly to deliver an excellent education to the state?s 1.8 million students, said State Superintendent of Public Instruction Stan Heffner at the annual Ohio School Boards Association?s conference earlier this week. So why are fewer than one in three of Ohio?s fourth graders reading at a proficient level (according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress)? Worse, why are achievement scores unimpressive among not only the Buckeye State?s urban districts, but even among wealthier suburban districts, especially in contrast to students internationally?
Ever wonder what happens to teachers who don't want to join the union? In her emotional testimony to the Ohio House's Commerce and Labor Committee on Senate Bill 5 this morning, teacher Carol Katter of Wapakoneta provided an answer.
The Falcon 49 School District near Colorado Springs is implementing an innovative structure to their administrative system, according to this article in Education Week.
Ohio teachers and administrators work tirelessly to deliver an excellent education to the state’s 1.8 million students, said State Superintendent of Public Instruction Stan Heffner at the annual Ohio School Boards Association’s conference earlier this week. So why are fewer than one in three of Ohio’s fourth graders reading at a proficient level (
Ohio’s electorate soundly rejected Issue 2 (the referendum on Senate Bill 5) last Tuesday. As almost everyone knows, that statute made significant changes to collective bargaining for public employees in the Buckeye State.
This letter to the editor appeared in the Columbus Dispatch on November 12.
Last week Ohio Education Matters (a subsidiary of the KnowledgeWorks Foundation) hosted a forum for Ohio superintendents and district
In 2010 the Foundation for Excellence in Education convened the Digital Learning Council, which brought together leaders from education, government, and business to develop a framework to integrate technology meaningfully into K-12 classrooms acros
If CRPE’s recent meta-analysis of charter-school research was an amuse-bouche, this report (from Mathematica/CRPE) on the practices and impacts of charter-management organizations (CMOs) acts as the entrée—and perhaps also the dessert.
While researchers have long tried to answer questions about whether teachers are under or overpaid, this study from the Heritage Foundation and American Enterprise Institute attempts to evaluate the total compensation of public school teachers against other
According to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau, federal programs similar to Head Start are keeping more than 2 million disadvantaged American children out of poverty.
We are going to see increasing in-fighting among big government types as big-spending school districts compete for resources with the rest of the agenda supported by the public fisc. Schools are increasingly going to lose those battles, which they?re not used to. Today?s example comes from Montgomery County, Maryland, where I live.
To improve student learning in Ohio, and in other states, we need to improve the quality of our teaching force.
Yesterday Ohio Education Matters (a subsidiary of the KnowledgeWorks Foundation) hosted a forum for Ohio superintendents and district
A vote of support for first responders
New study explains the ?what? and ?how? but not the ?who?
Centralization leads to politicization
Is the Land of Lincoln really making a dent in its pension crisis?
Ohio's electorate soundly rejected Issue 2 (the referendum on Senate Bill 5) on Tuesday. As almost everyone knows, that statute made significant changes to collective bargaining for public employees in the Buckeye State.
It is never easy to challenge your own friends and colleagues. But Thomas Lasley, the former dean of education at the University of Dayton, does just that in his hard hitting piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education ??? ???Why do Teacher-Education Programs Fear a New Rating System????
Rhode Island's teacher pension system is a mess. The annual cost of the retirement system has doubled since 2003 and will likely double again by 2013.