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Curriculum & Instruction
Evaluating the NYC Core Knowledge Early Literacy Pilot: Year 3 Report
This stuff really works!
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The Harrison Plan: Teacher compensation based on effectiveness
Putting pay-for-performance into practice
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Catching up with Kasich, Catholic schools, and the CCSS
John Kasich “begged” the Ohio Board of Education this week to support Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson’s education overhaul plan. After the SB 5 disappointment, here's hoping the Ohio governor's softer approach can help make a promising policy come to pass, then last.
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The Harrison Plan: Teacher Compensation Based on Effectiveness
Pop quiz: Which school district is farthest ahead in designing and implementing a workable teacher evaluation system? Washington, DC, with its IMPACT system? Denver, Colorado, with PRO-COMP? You’re getting warmer…
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Michelle Rhee on the Harrison (CO) School District's pay-for-performance plan
Michelle Rhee and Eric Lerum of StudentsFirst analyze the Harrison School District's approach to teacher compensation.
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"What do you know? You never taught!" and other ways we slow down educational progress
Perhaps what we need right now in education is not fewer outsiders, but many, many more.
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The Harrison Plan: Teacher Compensation Based on Effectiveness
Pop quiz: Which school district is farthest ahead in designing and implementing a workable teacher evaluation system? Washington, DC, with its IMPACT system? Denver, Colorado, with PRO-COMP? You’re getting warmer…
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Charter Schools
Kudos to KIPP: Fordham-sponsored school wins award for academic growth
Congratulations to KIPP: Journey Academy for the school’s EPIC Silver Gain Award from New Leaders for New Schools.
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Tightening Up Title I: The Implementation and Effectiveness of Supplemental Education Services
How much impact does SES have on student achievement?
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New A-F school-rating system a shock, and needed wake-up call, for many
Ohio's proposed new A-F rating system coming as a shock to many
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Charter Schools
Charter schools’ self-dealing hurts kids and needs attention
The Richard Allen Academy Schools Audit highlights, yet again, the need for Ohio statute to clarify the roles and duties of school governing boards, school operators, and school sponsors (aka authorizers).
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Charter Schools
Virtual home schooling
If Florida Governor Rick Scott signs the state’s digital learning bill, as expected, students in grades K-5 then could bypass a brick-and-mortar school and directly enroll full-time in a virtual instruction program.
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Krugman's folly: expensive college for all
If we prize social mobility fostered by accessible higher education, we need good options that are affordable, not a race to spend more dollars without regard to quality of outcomes.
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Andrei Shleifer, communism, & school reform
Guest blogger Neerav Kingland, chief strategy officer at New Schools for New Orleans, discusses the education lessons to be gleaned from the transition away from communism in Europe.
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Charter Schools
Some questions before pulling the trigger
Choice Words has developed some legislative guidance for more informative inquiry on the parent trigger.
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The race card: making sense of the Duncan discipline report
What this study tells us is that schools matter. And they matter in very old-fashioned ways: as institutions of learning.
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Practical advice on magical teaching
Teaching is neither an art nor a science. It's magic—and magic takes a lot of hard work to pull off.
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Ohio’s new school rating system already shocking many
Yesterday we wrote about Ohio’s recent waiver application to the U.S.
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Charter Schools
Fordham-sponsored KIPP: Journey Academy Wins EPIC Silver Gain Award
Congratulations to KIPP: Journey Academy on winning the EPIC Silver Gain Award!
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Charter Schools
McKay is OK, but with accountability it would be great
Florida's McKay Scholarships for Students with Disabilities program should reestablish its status as a pioneer by embracing a reasonable form of results-based accountability
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Charter Schools
Charter schools and the new urbanism
School leaders need help from policymakers to improve the availability of affordable space for teaching and learning, and to plug schools into revitalized neighborhoods.
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Ohio’s new school rating system could come as a shock to many
An analysis of how Buckeye State schools would fare under the grading system proposed in Ohio's NCLB waiver application.
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Charter Schools
Do we need a “virtual” education ministry?
A social sector solution to the "capacity" conundrum
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MetLife Survey of the American Teacher: Teachers, Parents and the Economy
I can’t get no…satisfaction