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The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood
Hanushek is nodding in agreement
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Charter Schools
Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2011
It’s not all kumbaya, even if you want it to be
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Curriculum & Instruction
Reviewing “The Tyranny of the Textbook”
Structural reform alone won't boost student achievement--but neither will a single-minded focus on curriculum and instruction.
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Unions on the run, part 2: Cuomo and Bloomberg take the offensive*
Peter Meyer profiles the assertive calls for education reform coming from executives in Albany and New York City.
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Funding crisis scales back Ohio infrastructure improvements, is education next?
The new reality is schools and school districts are being asked to do more with less. Have we overpromised in education like we have in infrastructure development?
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Governance
The Louisiana Recovery School District: Lessons for the Buckeye State
Is it time for Ohio to consider new forms of governance and management for its most troubled schools and districts, and, if so, what might alternatives look like?
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Charter Schools
Ms. Meier, tear down this wall
While Chris Tessone takes issue with Deborah Meier's view of Russian history, he writes that they have more in common than she might expect when it comes to democracy in education.
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Charter Schools
What Can Ohio Learn from the Louisiana Recovery School District?
Is it time for Ohio to consider new forms of governance and management for its most troubled schools and districts, and, if so, what might alternatives look like?
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Charter Schools
What Can Ohio Learn from the Louisiana Recovery School District?
Is it time for Ohio to consider new forms of governance and management for its most troubled schools and districts, and, if so, what might alternatives look like?
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King's message: a mind is a terrible thing to waste
My friend Staley Keith was telling me about his childhood in North Carolina – “Jesse country,” he said, “and I don’t mean Jackson.” Staley meant the North Carolina of Jesse Helms, the outspoken segregationist*** who would serve five terms in the United States Senate.
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Revisiting Rotherham: What role should NAEP play in NCLB reauthorization?
It’s time to revisit the purpose of the NAEP and leverage its power to set the bar for students consistently high across all states.
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Charter Schools
It’s time to move beyond old assumptions about vouchers
Guest blogger Adam Emerson exposes the flaws in out-dated thinking on school vouchers.
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Teacher unions, Mac the Knife, and dollar power
That’s the headline above Paul Peterson’s better-than-nifty essay on the Ed Next blog.
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3 Ohio elementary schools and credit union launch student-run branches
An innovative partnership to teach money-management skills to students launched this week between a southern Ohio district and a local credit union.
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Charter Schools
A glimpse at a successful school turnaround
Yesterday I had the pleasure of visiting Columbus Preparatory Academy, a K-8 Mosaica-run charter school on Columbus’s west side that is a poster child for the successful turnaround of a troubled school.
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3 reasons why Philly (and the nation) needs Catholic schools
Chris explains why everyone benefits from a vibrant parochial system.
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The costs of online learning
Stretching the school dollar through virtual schools and blended models
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What do education policymakers do about “toxic stress”?
Peter explains why great research is only half the battle.
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Multiple choice tests: A) Great, B) Terrible or C) Pretty useful when done right
Why phasing out "bubble test" assessments may actually be a mistake.
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Charter Schools
The cost of online learning and why it matters to Ohio
What does online learning really cost? Can it, in fact, be both better in terms of improving student achievement and overall less expensive than traditional bricks and mortar schools?
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The cost of online learning and why it matters to Ohio
What does online learning really cost? Can it, in fact, be both better in terms of improving student achievement and overall less expensive than traditional bricks and mortar schools?
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Fordham launches new website and Buckeye State blog
It’s a new year and a new look for the Fordham website. (Check it out and let us know what you think!)
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A bold reform plan in Indianapolis looks to halt the status-quo of under achievement
The Mind Trust in Indianapolis released a plan in December that proposes a bold and dramatic transformation of public education for that city akin to what has taken place in New Orleans and New York City.
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Charter Schools
Creating “AgBioscience” STEM Schools in the Buckeye State
STEM education in Ohio is a growing component of the state’s K-12 system. Metro Early College High School opened as a STEM school in Columbus in 2007, and since then STEM schools have opened their doors in metro regions like Dayton, Cincinnati,and Cleveland.