A piece of the puzzle: Teach For America, Dayton and its schools
Enticing our top college graduates to teach in America’s classrooms is a serious challenge, bordering on an epidemic in some of our poorer communities and neighborhoods.
Enticing our top college graduates to teach in America’s classrooms is a serious challenge, bordering on an epidemic in some of our poorer communities and neighborhoods.
The New York Times published a semi-balanced story today on the growth of the private school-choice movement
Starting in the 2014-15 school year, Ohio’s schools will fully implement the Common Core State Standards and the PARCC exams--online assessments aligned to the Common Core. As the Buckeye State draws nearer to lift off for these new academic standards and tests, school districts are ratcheting up their technological infrastructure and capacity.
Much has happened in the charter sector in the last twenty years, but the laws ruling its governance largely remain the same
Review by Terry Ryan of Fordham's latest report
Fordham’s new policy brief by Adam Emerson, “Governance in the Charter School Sector: Time for a Reboot,” tackles the governance issue head-on.
This Q&A with T.J. Wallace, the executive director for Dayton Liberty Academies, is the sixth of our seven-part series on school leadership.
As the Buckeye State draws nearer to lift off for Common Core standards and tests, school districts are ratcheting up their technological infrastructure and capacity.
The Fordham Institute has been engaged in a wide range of conversations recently, ranging from gifted-student education to Common Core to charter school quality.
Virtually no accountability measures exist in most of the nation’s special-education voucher programs, including the largest such program in the United States, Florida’s McKay Scholarship for Students with Disabilities
Re-examining the College Board's AP data for Midwestern states
A recap of Fordham's visit to Ohio's lone charter dedicated to serving gifted students
Senate Bill 243, while a step in the right direction, does not go far enough
In the latest dust-up over the Common Core, the inclusion of some (
Better than we thought, actually
March 20 Columbus event about gifted education
Review of March 20 gifted education event
Terry Ryan was a guest of the Ohio League of Women Voters today during their annual Statehouse Day, participating in a panel session on education funding in Ohio with Dr. William Phillis, Executive Director of The Ohio Coalition for Equity & Adequacy of School Funding.
Ohio's college-bound students do well, but room aplenty to improve
Strong authorizers can improve charter school quality
The National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) publishes an annual report that collects self-reported survey data from authorizers, which indicate the extent to which they comply with the “Index of Essential Practices.”
Whatever happens next, and however disappointing that litigation may be, at least the Alabama Supreme Court corrected what was a mockery of the legislative process
A five-city, cross-state comparison of charter school quality
The definitive story of New Orleans school reform
A fierce school-choice debate rages in Alabama—but the threat to the Common Core standards has receded, for now.
Farce doesn’t even begin to describe it
Conducted jointly by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and Public Impact, the new research study Searching for Excellence: A Five-City, Cross-State Comparison of Charter School Quality sheds light on charter performance — in Albany, Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, and Indianapolis.
This Q&A with Chad Webb, the head of school for Village Preparatory School-Woodland Hill campus, is the fifth of our seven-part series on school leadership.
The AEA decided to lawyer up before Alabama's new tax-credit law even reached the governor’s desk
Sibling rivalry