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Extra! Extra! Bad news sells!
A recent piece in the American Journalism Review ripped mainstream education journalism, especially the televised variety, for fostering a false sense of crisis. It contains a shred of truth.
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Tinkering Toward Transformation: A Look at Federal School Improvement Grant Implementation
SIG-nificant changes needed
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Charter Schools
Learning from Charter School Management Organizations: Strategies for Student Behavior and Teacher Coaching
Schools everywhere: Steal these ideas!
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Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn from the Educational Change in Finland?
It depends whom you ask
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Vouchers, vouchers, vouchers! Why more students could soon be eligible for one in Ohio
The EdChoice Scholarship Program (Ohio’s voucher program) was signed into law in 2005 under Governor Bob Taft. The program awards students vouchers based on the academic standing of their assigned district school.
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The fight’s on: Rhee, Klein, and Moskowitz team up in New York
StudentsFirstNY promises to make a splash in Empire State education politics.
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3 reasons funding should follow kids
Ed reformers should remain bullish about weighted student funding.
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We need meaningful dialogue & collaboration
Guest blogger and Bronx special education teacher Mark Anderson writes that today's most important government challenge is increasing collaboration between educators.
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Revisiting Teacher Value-Added: The Benefits Last a Lifetime
Onto a world filled with marathon-running vegans
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The American Way: Education and the Key to International Competitiveness
If we have to crawl then so does everyone else
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Curriculum & Instruction
They'll Swallow More Learning if You Sugar-coat It
Mary Poppins was onto something
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I know you are, but what am I?
Unfettered by karmic pronouncements, Rick Santorum has already begun designing lesson plans for
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Curriculum & Instruction
Courage, instruction, and being open to the changes the Common Core demands
Resistance among teachers to changing their instruction poses a serious challenge to Common Core implementation.
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Soldiers in the fight for social justice
Louisiana Superintendent of Education John White explains the place of poverty in discussions about education.
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73 percent of teachers think they are prepared to teach the Common Core, and other facts that should keep CCSS supporters up at night
While the quick adoption of Common Core by 46 states was cheered by those who had been pushing for common standards for decades, the more jaded among us wondered: Do most states really understand what they signed up for?
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Doing “more with less” demands partners, K-12 sector is finding them
Fewer state tax dollars for Ohio’s local governments and schools have public administrators talking, in the light of day no less, about mergers and shared services.
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Making sausage: the work of school board associations
The NYSSBA is not wrong about the need to shake the barnacles off the bureaucracy.
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Two education gems in the Gem City
We are pleased to be featuring two Dayton outstanding high schools in an upcoming report looking at high-performing, high-poverty highschools: Dayton Early College Academy (a charter school) and Stivers Schools for the Arts (a district-operated magnet school).
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Doing “more with less” demands partners, K-12 sector is finding them
Fewer state tax dollars for Ohio’s local governments and schools have public administrators talking, in the light of day no less, about mergers and shared services.
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Strange political bedfellows coming together around Cleveland’s school-reform efforts
The bold Jackson Plan is bringing together strange political bedfellows.
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Governor Kasich’s mid-biennium education proposals focus on performance, transparency
In a nutshell, it is fair to say that all of the governor’s major education proposals are aimed at making sure everyone – educators, parents, and the public – has a clearer and more accurate understanding of how well Ohio’s schools are doing in preparing students for college and the workforce.
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Praise, caution for Harrison pay-for-performance plan
The Harrison (CO) School District’s compensation plan, profiled in a recent Fordham report, represents another of yet a few compensation plans that totally redesign the actual teacher salary schedule.