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Reese’s cups, cars, and college

NPR discusses high-finance with kids from Village Prep, a Fordham-sponsored charter

A judge decides what “public education” is in Louisiana

And the public loses

Meltdown in the Motor City

Hope fades for Detroit’s kids

Compromising one minute, angling the next

Strength in Numbers: State Spending on K-12 Assessment Systems

The right kind of collaboration

Charter School Performance in New Jersey

Newark hits it out of the park

New York State Special-Education Enrollment Analysis

Beware the knee-jerk reaction

Experts provide Ohio lawmakers with guidance on improving school funding and performance

Eric Hanushek, Marguerite Roza, and Frederick Hess testify before Ohio House and Senate finance committees

School leader profile: Dr. Glenda Brown

Born in Alabama, Dr. Brown now leads one of Cincinnati's highest performing charter schools. Our Q&A with Dr. Brown.

Changing One Million Lives

NACSA's call for states to be more proactive in closing failing charter schools and opening great new ones.

Just how potent are teacher unions?

Teacher unions remain formidable foes of education reform.

Fordham supports HB 555

Terry Ryan testifies before Ohio Senate, in favor of school accountability overhaul.

Fordham mobility report makes news

Buckeye State newspapers spotlight student mobility in their neck of the woods.

Getting Down to Dollars and Cents: What Do School Districts Spend to Deliver Student-Centered Learning?

What is student-centered learning -- and does it cost more?

Strength in Numbers: State Spending in K-12 Assessment Systems

How much does Ohio spend on its assessments?

Buckeye students set for success

Ohio has three Race to the Top finalists.

Ohio's school rating overhaul

Replace the currently nebulous school and district ratings with readily understood A-F grades.

A call for quality charters

The NACSA's Parker Baxter on charter accountability and the "One Million Lives" campaign

Judge decides what “public education” is in Louisiana, and the public loses

According to Judge Timothy Kelley, the state was wrong to fund its new voucher program by the same revenue stream that provides a “minimum foundation” to its public elementary and secondary schools.

Inequality for All: The Challenge of Unequal Opportunity in American Schools

This wonky but important (and exceptionally timely) book by Schmidt and McKnight is a distinctive, deeply researched, and amply documented plea for full-scale implementation of the Common Core math standards

Michigan looks to unbundle public education

Michigan governor Rick Snyder is proposing is perhaps more transformative than what any of his peers have so far established in statute--but he can't generate national buzz

Meet Ohio's Superintendent of Year

The Buckeye Association of School Administrators names West Carrollton's Rusty Clifford as Ohio's Superintendent of the Year for 2013

Lead the way, Newark

It’s do or die time for the district

Changing one million lives

Closing troubled schools and opening great new ones

Here's to optimism

On Monday, the U.S. Department of Education announced sixty-one finalists in its Race to the Top–District competition.

Teacher Pension Choice: Surveying the Landscape in Washington State

Not as adverse as you’d think

The State of Teacher Evaluation Reform

Napoleonic ambition isn’t enough

Keeping Irreplaceables in D.C. Public Schools

No more "taking the good with the bad"

Think before you write special-education quotas into charter law

CRPE argues a statewide difference in charter and district special-education enrollments is too simplistic of a comparison

How the nonfiction backlash could derail Common Core ELA implementation

Nowhere do the CCSS “mandate” the percent of time ELA teachers need to spend on nonfiction