Ohio is the newest state with an income-based scholarship, joining Indiana, Washington DC, and Wisconsin.
In the past year, charter school naysayers have successfully convinced some media outlets to question the actual demand for charters
The Dayton Public Schools, like so many other urban districts, has been in a state of decline.
An Atlantic article by sociology professor Richard Greenwald examines Mayor Michael Blo
A better approach to “affirmative action”
Ohio’s Department of Education talks a lot about academic rigor in the K-12 continuum, but does not define it on its own.
While the overall news is good for charters, it’s clear that some states are not moving fast enough to adopt quality control
Columbus' mayor, soon to enter the charter school authorization business, should check out this data viz
The NGSS gave undue prominence to scientific skills and practices, ultimately underemphasizing content knowledge
For most of Ohio’s youngsters, school’s out for the summer. But for the girls and boys who have dropped out of school, school may be out for good, with devastating consequences.
A panel of project partners met June 20 to discuss the findings and implications of Fordham’s student mobility study, Student Nomads: Mobility in Ohio’s Schools.
Ohio’s switch to the PARCC exams, and its implications for teachers’ value-added scores
New York City’s graduation rate dipped very slightly in 2012—information that was
Making lemonade out of lemons
One new dropout every thirty-one seconds
To improve student learning in Ohio, and in other states, we need to improve the quality of our teaching force
For most of Ohio’s youngsters, school’s out for the summer. But for the girls and boys who have dropped out of school, school may be out for good, with devastating consequences.
In recent weeks, some from the anti-Common Core crowd have insinuated that Ohio’s state legislators, the state board of education, and state officials were somehow duped into adopting, or worse yet, covertly adopted the Common Core standards in math and English language arts.
How do Ohio’s science standards stack up, in comparison to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)?
A report from the Center for American Progress (CAP) sheds light on the poor quality of school governance in the United States.
Fordham contributes to news articles related to charter school accountability and retaining Ohio's graduates
Ohio has put the welcome mat out for charter schools that provide career technical education. Building on criteria from the federal Carl D. Perkins Act Ohio’s biennial budget (HB59) provides a significant increase in funding for charter schools that provide career technical courses.
Of seven badly performing charter schools cut off by their authorizer, four have been reprieved
According to the Times, ability grouping is back, after being unfairly stigmatized in th
State NAEP gains are all over the map—but we still don’t know why
Viewing education through the prism of Big Data
