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Charter Schools
Hope Against Hope: Three Schools, One City, and the Struggle to Educate America’s Children
The definitive story of New Orleans school reform
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Do First Impressions Matter? Improvement in Early Career Teacher Effectiveness
Bad teachers, like bad schools, don’t get better with time
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Charter Schools
Decision-making 101
A fierce school-choice debate rages in Alabama—but the threat to the Common Core standards has receded, for now.
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Charter Schools
Alabama school-choice fight as Theater of the Absurd
Farce doesn’t even begin to describe it
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Districts can compete effectively for kids in a choice world
Commentary from Terry Ryan about Kasich's budget plan and voucher programs.
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Education Governance for the Twenty-First Century: Overcoming the Structural Barriers to School Reform
An analysis and alternatives that will inform attempts to adapt nineteenth and twentieth century governance structures to the new demands and opportunities of today.
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Charter Schools
Searching for Excellence: A Five-City, Cross-State Comparison of Charter School Quality
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.
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Curriculum & Instruction
A school for scholars: Q & A with Chad Webb, Village Preparatory charter school
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.
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Fordham weighs in on the Kasich education plan, the Common Core, and student mobility
Fordham’s gadflies have been buzzing over the past weeks, discussing Governor Kasich’s budget, Common Core, and Student Nomads. If you’ve missed any of these items, here’s your chance to catch up!
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The Opportunity Cost of Smaller Classes: A State-by-State Spending Analysis
A review of The Center on Reinventing Public Education's study by Marguerite Roza and Monica Ouijdani that examines the cost of class size reduction.
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Educating Our Brightest, March 20 in Columbus
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute and the Ohio Associated for Gifted Children are partnering to host an exciting discussion about gifted education and its impact on Ohio’s prosperity.
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Districts can compete effectively for kids in a choice world
Commentary from Terry Ryan about voucher programs
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Charter Schools
Alabama school-choice decision as Theater of the Absurd
The AEA decided to lawyer up before Alabama's new tax-credit law even reached the governor’s desk
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Kasich's school plan is on the right track
Commentary from Terry Ryan about Kasich's school budget plan
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Put up or shut up: Will leaders seize the chance to improve accountability?
Our failure to evolve NCLB and its accountability policies has led to a host of negative unintended consequences
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Social impact bonds – an idea worth exploring?
Social-impact bonds (SIBs), or pay for success financing, are innovative financial arrangements that could provide a cutting-edge way to fund experimentation and expanded opportunities in public education.
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Watching our choice of words
After attracting criticism for his description of how sequestration would
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The End of Exceptionalism in American Education: The Changing Politics of School Reform
Busting the “apolitical education” myth
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Charter Schools
Portfolio Strategies, Relinquishment, The Urban School System of the Future, and Smart Districts
Sibling rivalry
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Curriculum & Instruction
A National Perspective on States’ Progress in Common Core State Standards Implementation Planning
The proof is in the pudding
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Advanced Education
Does Sorting Students Improve Scores? An Analysis of Class Composition
Divided we stand
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Charter Schools
No choice for Alabama students
Alabama teacher unions and school boards have, for now, defeated what should be the state's first private school choice plan
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Curriculum & Instruction
Opening up the black box: Common Core as a classroom-level reform
It is exactly because Common Core is pushing reformers to take classroom-level change more seriously that it has the potential to have such far-reaching impact
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Charter Schools
The high-performing KIPP network of charters primed to expand in Columbus
Mathematica Policy Research released report about student performance of those who attend KIPP middle schools
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Charter Schools
Kasich plan good, but needs more accountability, flexibility
Yesterday was the first day of public testimony on Governor Kasich’s budget proposal before the Ohio House Finance Primary and Secondary Education Committee.
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Charter Schools
Lift the Bay State charter cap
With the results from this latest CREDO study, it’s clearer now than ever that lawmakers should lift the state's cap on charters
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Good and could get better: Terry Ryan’s testimony on the Kasich plan
Terry Ryan's written testimony at the Ohio House Finance Primary and Secondary Education subcommittee