Authorizers matter, in Ohio and across the nation
Terry Ryan on the importance of charter authorizers
Terry Ryan on the importance of charter authorizers
The guidance that’s starting to emerge about how teachers can best select “grade-appropriate” texts may actually end up undermining the Common Core’s emphasis on improving the quality and rigor of the texts students are reading.
There has been a lot of hand-wringing in the last week about whether charter schools are doing enough to enroll students with disabilities. But are we looking closely at who is among the learning disabled?
The autonomy agenda matters
A look back at Fordham sponsored schools for the 2011-12 school year
For almost five years now, the Center for Reinventing Public Education and Mathematica have teamed up to assess the
Demand for a school was highly correlated with its quality. Baking a successful school-choice soufflé is challenging. The ingredients are hard to come by: Schools must be high performing while simultaneously offering options to a diverse parent base. And the recipe is fussy: Navigating the system should be easy and fair. There can be no inherent incentives to game the system.
No public school serves all disabilities
Guest blogger Paul Gross addresses the enduring (and false) belief that scientific reasoning is separable from the content of science.
Children across Ohio will benefit if charters and school districts can end their feud and find ways to maximize resources across their schools.
As the 2011-12 school year ends, we want to highlight the unique events and successes that happened in our schools this year.
The report challenges the choice system as it currently stands, saying that existing school choice programs, while delivering slightly better outcomes, are not challenging the public school sector as they need to be.
A few suggestions for voucher accountability
Why Eva Moskowitz is right to challenge New York's enrollment quotas for students with special needs.
In the end, the “just right” theory of reading instruction is focused on the right goal—having students read independently and with deep understanding. But the way it tries to get there may be exactly what is holding our students back from achieving at the levels they need.
Philosophical gravitas from an unexpected source.
Innovation demands investment
The Common Core is common sense
Imagine, for a moment, a policy that allows learning-disabled students to take their share of federal IDEA funds to the public or private schools of their choice. It’s outlandish to suppose that we would discontinue the use of state assessments given to most of these students. But that’s the reality in Florida.
The growth in capital available to schools from private investors is an underrated success story for the charter movement.
The Common Core ELA standards are right to takes on one of the most prominent and often fiercely defended fallacies in American education: that fiction is the only—or perhaps even the best—way to develop students’ love of reading, learning, and critical comprehension skills.
What Harlem Village Academy and Finland have in common
Columbus Collegiate Academy (CCA) opened in 2008, and it has now launched the newly-formed United Schools Network, a nonprofit charter management organization (CMO).
Guest blogger Darrell Allison, president of Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina, argues for a range of quality education models.
Is universal school choice necessary to encourage innovative models of private education?
Columbus Collegiate Academy (CCA) opened in 2008, and it has now launched the newly-formed United Schools Network, a nonprofit charter management organization (CMO).
The Southern Regional Education Board's call for a fair system of funding for charters is an encouraging sign.