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Charter Schools
A cautionary note for D.C. charter-district collaboration
Here's hoping that collaboration doesn’t co-opt educational diversity.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Teach Like a Champion versus the Common Core: Do pre-reading activities help or hurt struggling students?
Two competing perspectives on reading instruction.
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Charter Schools
New evidence on vouchers and “cherry-picking”
A new study of the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship program should render a persistent critique of school vouchers and tax credit scholarships irrelevant.
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Bob Sommers, the exit interview
Bob Sommers, Ohio Governor Kasich’s “education czar” for the past year officially stepped down from his position on January 31, and before leaving he sat down with Rick Hess for an interview.
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Charter Schools
A dissenting voice muddies the charter school debate
With friends like these, the growing coalition of support for charter schools will have a harder time coalescing around a common purpose.
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Charter Schools
Why MBAs won't save district schools
School choice, not business degrees, offers the best shot at improving the K-12 sector.
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Sustained Positive Effects on Graduation Rates Produced by New York City’s Small Public High Schools of Choice
Small schools get the final word.
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Flexibility, Philadelphia, and Bloomberg calls Cuomo’s bluff
The AP reports that the U.S. Education Department scolded states that had applied for the first round of NCLB waivers for not ensuring to ED’s satisfaction that schools would be held accountable for student performance.
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Parent power, teacher power, local power, and a word from Michelle Rhee
Peter catches up on a few of the most notable education stories from the past month (or so).
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Charter Schools
High-quality customizable learning options should be the rule, not the exception
One could argue that 2011 was the year of “digital learning” in Ohio and across the nation. In September, the White House announced its “Digital Promise” campaign, while a number of states have been embracing initiatives and campaigns in this realm, aided and encouraged by national groups like the Digital Learning Council and the Foundation for Excellence in Education. Ohio’s biennial budget launched the Ohio Digital Learning Task Force and charged it with ensuring that the state’s “legislative environment is conducive to and supportive of the educators and digital innovators at the heart of this transformation.”
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A big bet on Common Core implementation
Here’s hoping the GE Foundation’s $18 million will provide CCSS authors an important tool for shaping implementation discussions.
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O'Malley fights the good fight on Maryland pensions
A modest, and relatively unpopular, plan could go a long way towards improving Maryland's fiscal situation.
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Charter Schools
Can a small program in Mexico inform parental choice in the U.S.?
Parents, even those a step above poverty, are ready to exercise more control over their children's education.
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Charter Schools
Survey: charter school closure rates dropping
Adam explains why charter school applications must be subjected to closer scrutiny.
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Charter Schools
Scaling up by scaling down
Real reform must embrace choice—choice at the individual level.
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Charter Schools
Ranking reform, embracing audacity
As the recent ALEC report card on American K-12 education shows, it's been a brazen year for school reform.
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Curriculum & Instruction
How will reading instruction change when aligned to the Common Core?
The Common Core emphasis on "close reading" challenges teachers to focus reading on actually reading.
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Charter Schools
School choice options abound in Ohio
As you are likely well aware, we are in the midst of School Choice Week, not only here in Ohio but nationwide. Numerous events have been going on all throughout the Buckeye State to help commemorate.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Will Steve Jobs finally conquer the classroom?
The education sector remains an elusive prize for Apple, but the company is making a big move to change that.
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For both classroom and computer learning, content matters
Why digital learning demands thoughtful educational design.
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Report Card on American Education: Ranking State K-12 Performance, Progress, and Reform
And the winner is…Missouri?!
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Curriculum & Instruction
Preparing for Change: A National Perspective on Common Core State Standards Implementation Planning
Act now, align later
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Charter Schools
The feds find a way to stem the tide of STEM innovation
Catching up on the week's news.
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School success? Fryer finds it in Houston
School reformers don't need silver bullets or secret sauces--they need the flexibility to make substantive changes.