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Cuyahoga County starting kids on the right foot
A glimpse of the latest Ohio education headlines
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Entering a new era of accountability
Ohio’s public schools and parents will soon see a revamped local report card, starting in August 2015.
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Stand and deliver
This article originally appeared in Carnegie Mellon Today. It is reprinted with permission.
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Hard to kill charter school canards
In recent weeks, however, the anti-charter crowd has been working the state’s newspapers to spread half-truths and canards about Ohio’s charter school program.
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Open enrollment sweeps across Ohio
Districts' traditional boundary lines continue to blur
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In the knowledge economy, it’s knowledge that matters
Experts agree that while the industrial economy was driven by productivity, the knowledge economy is and will be driven by ideas
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Bill Gates not a fan of Ohio's PE evaluations
Bill Gates piece in Washington Post sides with Terry Ryan's commentary about Ohio's physical education evaluations.
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What explains KIPP’s success?
Mathematica doesn’t find the magic formula for KIPP’s success. But, there are a few tantalizing results.
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Left-of-center reformers: Join the voucher movement today
In which Mike addresses the left's main concerns with voucher programs
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Time for more generous vouchers and Catholic charter schools
But because charters and Catholic schools share similar traits and comparable missions in serving inner-city, low-income youth, there ought to be equal opportunities for each sector to thrive
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Governance in the charter school sector: Time for a reboot
As charters evolve, so must the rules
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Fraudulence gets checked—but not without excuses
The dramatic test-cheating scandal in Atlanta—which has seen the indictment of thirty-five educators, including
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A small yet nice honor for high-achieving students in one Ohio district
Students’ academic excellence recognized in Dublin City’s financial report
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Why conservatives should support the Common Core
Two education scholars from right-of-center think tanks set the record straight
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Common ground
An introduction to our upcoming Common Core blog discussions with school leaders
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Common Corps—and la Coeur
Continuing his stunning career ascent, Common Core architect David Coleman has agreed to take a top post in Pope Francis’s inner circle, just months after joining the College Board.
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Ohio Department of Education’s Physical Education Evaluation Instrument
The following is a real-life excerpt from a standardized assessment that Ohio plans to put to K–2 kids—and the only piece of this Gladfly that is 100 percent true.
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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.