Earlier this week, the New York Times featured an editorial on gifted education, noting that even our best students were in the middle of the pack in the recent PISA results.
Occam’s Razor is the well-known principle that “among competing hypotheses, the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions should be selected.” Keep that in mind as various pundits hypothesize about why the U.S.
Fordham's 2012-13 sponsorship annual report addresses our schools’ perspective regarding persistent challenges and how the schools address those challenges.
Open enrollment options abound across Ohio - in cities, suburbs, and rural areas. It is often the school choice option of first resort. But is it bane or benefit for students?
I’ve been in Asia for other reasons (looking into the education of gifted students), but while on the ground in Tokyo, I learned of a fascinating policy dispute that, in the U.S., would be even more controversial.
This valuable paper from the Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings sounds an important alarm: “The danger is that grade inflation, the often discussed phenomenon of students receiving higher and higher grades for mediocre academic achievement, has been joined by course inflation.
This August, Ohio issued for the first time conventional A through F school grades along nine indicators of school performance.
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Sometimes winning the school-choice lottery is the only thing you care about as a parent.
It should not be a sworn enemy of vouchers
City-County Council members in Indianapolis convened a panel of experts Thursday evening to discuss the impact of charter authorizers on school quality.
This is why it was important for Georgia voters to create an independent authorizer for charter schools
A Chicago public school and public library will begin to share space on Thursday, breaking ground for a new “library-within-a-school” model that may be “copied and mimicked all across the city,” according to an
Despite the tireless marriage-wrecking efforts of Common Core opponents and their acolytes and funders, few states that initially pledged their troth to these rigorous new standards for English and math are in divorce mode.
To fully appreciate the academics of rural schools, let’s dig into three data points that were not components of the state’s rating system.
New York made education headlines last week, as its public schools reported substantially lower test scores than in previous years. The cause of the drop?
A glimpse of the latest Ohio education headlines
The Center for Education Policy recently released a three-part series of reports reviewing the Common Core State standards implementation with focuses on the federal role, state progress and challenges, and teacher preparation, training, and assessments for the new standards.
When the news came Thursday that the latest CREDO report showed outsize learning gains at New Orleans charter schools, I recalled the simplicity that Neerav Kingsland used to define his idea of “relinquishment” in public education
Cleveland's top-rated schools, both district and charter schools, still have the capacity to serve more students this coming school year.
The collective “we” in education is currently in tatters.
Following the Tony Bennett flap, the A-to-F school-grading systems tha
Promise Academy’s broader and bolder results
Dr. Judy Hennessey, superintendent of Deca Prep, a K-6 elementary school, discusses Common Core.
As states and schools get ready for Common Core implementation, they had better prepare for higher quality education for both students and teachers.
As “school choice” laws go, Missouri's is sloppy and coercive
Louisiana voters are used to making the hard decisions about public education that divide their lawmakers
The Washington Post profiled Josh Powell, a homeschooled young man, who—having never written an essay or learned that South Africa was a country—had to take several years of rem
