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Terry Ryan’s parting words of wisdom
The Fordham Ohio staff thanks Terry Ryan for his time, energy, and commitment to serving the state of Ohio and its students for twelve years.
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Defining and Organizing for School Autonomy
Many states have found a solution for how to better serve their inner-city students through portfolio districts, urban districts that prescribe to a continuous improvement model based on seven key components.
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
Cincinnati, the model public school district?
A glimpse of the latest Ohio education headlines
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Curriculum & Instruction
Year 3 of Implementing the Common Core State Standards: An Overview of States’ Programs and Challenges
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.
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New leadership announced for the Fordham Institute’s Ohio team
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute today announced two new vice presidents to lead its education-reform efforts in Ohio.
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The unintended consequences of consequences
When New York released the test-score data from its first administration of the Common Core–aligned tests, they unleashed the shot heard ‘round the education world
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Charter Schools
The effective simplicity of relinquishment
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
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What I learned about the opposition to the Common Core State Standards when I testified in Indiana
Jason Zimba, a lead author of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, reflects on the lessons he learned this week in Indiana
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Charter Schools
Empty seats in Cleveland’s highest-rated schools
Cleveland's top-rated schools, both district and charter schools, still have the capacity to serve more students this coming school year.
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
We can all have flying cars: Why yearning for the good old days is a waste of time when it comes to education
The collective “we” in education is currently in tatters.
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Critics’ math doesn’t add up
The recent editorial by James Milgram and Emmett McGroarty was so misleading that it demands a response
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Charter Schools
How much information is too much information?
Following the Tony Bennett flap, the A-to-F school-grading systems tha
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Year 3 of Implementing the Common Core State Standards: An Overview of States’ Progress and Challenges
Still waiting for aligned curricular materials
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Charter Schools
The Medium-Term Impacts of High-Achieving Charter Schools on Non-Test Score Outcomes
Promise Academy’s broader and bolder results
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
Common Ground: Judy Hennessey
Dr. Judy Hennessey, superintendent of Deca Prep, a K-6 elementary school, discusses Common Core.
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New York Common Core implementation: Is the day of reckoning upon us?
Tomorrow, the New York Department of Education plans to publicly release the results from the first administration of its new Common Core–aligned assessment—the news isn’t good
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Truck stops, rural schools, and the Common Core
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.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Short Review: High Quality Professional Development for Teachers
As states and schools get ready for Common Core implementation, they had better prepare for higher quality education for both students and teachers.
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Charter Schools
Choice always beats coercion
As “school choice” laws go, Missouri's is sloppy and coercive
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Testimony to Indiana
Kathleen Porter-Magee's testimony urging Indiana to stay the course with the Common Core
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Charter Schools
Give Louisiana voters the chance to redefine public education funding
Louisiana voters are used to making the hard decisions about public education that divide their lawmakers
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
Keeping our standards up
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
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Curriculum & Instruction
Hijacking Ohio’s future: State legislators must reject House Bill 237
Ohio’s legislators must reject House Bill 237, which seeks to void the State Board of Education’s decision to adopt the Common Core academic standards in English language arts and math.
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Charter Schools
A decade of charter school growth, but where to now?
More than 100,000 students in Ohio attended a public charter school during the past school year
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Charter Schools
Good charter schools are good investments
Few reporters and analysts have documented the challenges charters face in entering the multi-trillion-dollar municipal bond market
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Charter Schools
Summer reading: On underemployment, social mobility, M-learning, and more
This summer in Ohio has been oppressively hot and (for some reason) rainy. So check out these short reviews and reading recommendations from the Columbus team!
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Charter Schools
Caps on choice are counterproductive
The perseverance of a Wisconsin mother brings the shortcomings of many school-choice programs into sharp focus
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