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Charter Schools
Moving beyond the fringe voices in the voucher debate
The New York Times published a semi-balanced story today on the growth of the private school-choice movement
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Curriculum & Instruction
The Common Core, digital transformation, and the Kasich budget proposal
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.
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Charter Schools
Governance in the charter school sector: Time for a reboot
Much has happened in the charter sector in the last twenty years, but the laws ruling its governance largely remain the same
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Charter Schools
Governance in the Charter School Sector: Time for a Reboot
Review by Terry Ryan of Fordham's latest report
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Teacher Evaluation Overkill in Ohio - What about PE Teachers?
Evaluating teachers to gauge their impact on student achievement is a necessary reform.
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Can mayoral control fix what ails Ohio’s urban school districts?
Ohio’s urban school districts, like many others across the country, face a slow burning governance crisis.
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Charter Schools
Governance in the Charter School Sector: Time for a Reboot
Fordham’s new policy brief by Adam Emerson, “Governance in the Charter School Sector: Time for a Reboot,” tackles the governance issue head-on.
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Ohio swears in Richard Ross as new state superintendent
Richard (Dick) Ross was sworn into Monday by State Board of Education President Debe Terhar as Ohio’s 37th State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
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Charter Schools
I don’t forget the parents who beat the odds: Q & A with Dayton Liberty Academy’s T.J. Wallace
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.
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Curriculum & Instruction
The Common Core, digital transformation, and the Kasich budget proposal
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.
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Charter Schools
From gifted-student education to Common Core to charter school quality
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.
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From High School to the Future: The Challenge of Senior Year in Chicago Public Schools
In a recent report, From High School to the Future: The Challenge of Senior Year in Chicago Public Schools, The University of Chicago’s Consortium on Chicago School Research tackles the question of whether high school students’ entire senior year is one large case of senioritis.
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Can mayoral control fix what ails Ohio’s urban school districts?
Ohio’s urban school districts, like many others across the country, face a slow burning governance crisis.
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Charter Schools
Special-education vouchers need accountability
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
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Ohio swears in Richard Ross as new state superintendent
Ohio swears in Richard Ross as new state superintendent March 25, 2013 in Columbus.
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Advanced Education
Does the percentage of students taking AP exams explain state level results?
Re-examining the College Board's AP data for Midwestern states
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Advanced Education
Charters for the gifted and talented?
A recap of Fordham's visit to Ohio's lone charter dedicated to serving gifted students
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Charter Schools
Make the Georgia Tax-Credit Scholarship more transparent—and expand it
Senate Bill 243, while a step in the right direction, does not go far enough
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Curriculum & Instruction
The Common Core War (What is it good for?)
In the latest dust-up over the Common Core, the inclusion of some (
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From Resegregation to Reintegration: Trends in the Racial/Ethnic Segregation of Metropolitan Public Schools, 1993–2009
With new data arises new hope
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Curriculum & Instruction
The 2013 Brown Center Report on American Education: How Well Are American Students Learning?
Better than we thought, actually
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Advanced Education
Educating Our Brightest: Improving Gifted Education to Boost Ohio’s Prosperity and Success
March 20 Columbus event about gifted education
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Charter Schools
A generational issue
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.
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Advanced Education
How do Ohio's AP scores stack up?
Ohio's college-bound students do well, but room aplenty to improve
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Charter Schools
Authorizers: See what replacing failing charter schools, replicating great ones can do
Strong authorizers can improve charter school quality
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Charter Schools
The National Association of Charter School Authorizers’ Index of Essential Practices 2012
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.”
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Charter Schools
A sensible supreme court paves the way for Alabama choice plan
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
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Charter Schools
Searching for Charter School Excellence
A five-city, cross-state comparison of charter school quality