A testimony on the Common Core standards
The following is Kathleen Porter-Magee's testimony to the Wisconsin State Legislature on the Common Core standards
The following is Kathleen Porter-Magee's testimony to the Wisconsin State Legislature on the Common Core standards
Jeff Murray vividly reminds us what it's like to lose the school-choice lottery
Wayward Sons, a recent report published by the policy think tank the Third Way, finds that the average girl’s educational and career outcomes have improved over time, while boys tend to be faring worse.
Yesterday, I spent all day hitting the Refresh button on my email account. Probably 653 times. Why? Because the one school that we wanted for our children for next year was to announce its lottery results to those lucky few who would be chosen. 12 or 13 slots for sixth grade, out of an application pool of several hundred (wish I knew exactly how many).
Did you miss Ohio's recent event? A video is now available!
The Justice Department has taken school-voucher policy to unstable ground
When a Michigan House committee approved a measure that would allow students to skip Algebra 2 if they instead take a tec
This interview with the United States Department of Education is the third and final installment in our Common Core testing consortia series
The second installment of the testing-consortia series is a conversation with Smarter Balanced
The inaugural installment of By the Company It Keeps, an interview series with some of ed reform’s most important contributors
The Dayton Early College Academy (DECA) is Dayton’s highest performing high school (district or charter), but is being trashed by a Columbus organization.
With potential tactics still in play to sustain the voucher expansion, it is likely that this ruling will simply be a pothole on the road to voucher expansion in Louisiana
Low standards, low expectations
A tricky line of research gets worthy treatment
Our Gadfly readers won’t
About 8,000 children had already been promised vouchers for next year when the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled its method of funding unconstitutional
Few school systems have embraced a crisis of opportunity quite like the school system in Reynoldsburg, Ohio.
A coalition that included high performing charter schools from Cleveland, Columbus and Dayton testified in front of the Senate Finance Committee’s Education Subcommittee on May 7th.
A profile feature article about the Reynoldsburg City School District
As the charter movement enters its third decade, it is imperative that policymakers and legislators understand the perspective of those schools that have succeeded in providing their students with a quality education.
Despite the surge in charter enrollment, charters still largely direct money from instruction, classroom support, and administration to their facilities
At the least, MOOCs can stop the rising cost of PD—and, at best, could improve it
Enough with the trash talk
Snaps to Gov.
This report is great data on a critically important field
It’s open season on Pearson, the corporation everyone loves to hate—but this time, though they have crossed a serious line, far too many state leaders and reformers are holding their fire
The last couple of weeks have witnessed unremitting and well-coordinated attacks on the Common Core academic standards
When boards are mere rubber stamps, questions about accountability, incentives, and conflicts of interest are sure to follow
Hold your horses