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Student nomads: Mobility in Ohio's schools
The magnitude and scale of student mobility is greater than typically appreciated.
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Charter Schools
Voters making education more local
Charter school supporters can claim victory in at least one high-profile ballot initiative (Georgia) and perhaps one other (Washington) but each state has a different story to tell—and lessons to teach.
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Charter Schools
Sorry, Dr. Ravitch, but voucher transparency still exists in Wisconsin
Correcting Diane Ravitch's mischaracterization of new Wisconsin voucher legislation.
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Education recovers from elections and super storms
Hurricane Sandy temporarily shuttered 198 school districts in New York City and more than 300 in New Jersey last week, amounting to what Education Week
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Curriculum & Instruction
2 years, 5 months & 4 days in the life of … Common Core
Tennessee has been quietly developing what might be the most thoughtful, cohesive, and outcome-driven state CCSS implementation plan in the nation.
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Congratulations!
A hearty congrats to Mayor Frank Jackson and his staff, Cleveland Metropolitan School District CEO Eric Gordon, the city’s business community, district supporters, teachers, students, and the voters of Cleveland on the passage of the district’s levy
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Evidence-Based Learning, Charter Schools
Student Nomads: Mobility in Ohio's Schools
Our data show that students frequently change schools. Should public policies try to slow student mobility? Encourage it? Or make policies better attuned to it?
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Charter Schools
Better oversight could have weeded out a charter school scandal
The real lesson from a Florida charter school principal's $519,000 golden parachute
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Unionized teacher salaries
A local example of how highly-paid unionized teachers--relative their non-union peers and their local community--provide little benefit in return.
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Transparency and charter autonomy are worth the hiccups
An Idaho judge ruled this week that the nonprofit behind $200,000-worth of ads backing state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna’s education reforms
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The Resegregation of Suburban Schools: A Hidden Crisis in American Education
Demographically challenged
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Reading guarantee will help stem the tide of dropouts
Too many of our schools dramatically shortchange students by advancing them on to higher grades without the ability to read.
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Do the Smarter Balanced released assessment items measure up?
The good, the bad, and the ugly of SBAC's preview
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The White/Black Educational Gap, Stalled Progress, and the Long Term Consequences of the Emergence of Crack Cocaine Markets
Oh, the tangled web we've woven
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Litigating, debating, penalizing, and prognosticating
The Los Angeles Times is suing the Los Angeles Unified School Dis
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Curriculum & Instruction
A new concept of what it means to be educated will drive Dayton's economic revival
Innovation in education: that's how to prepare people for the jobs of tomorrow
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