Blended learning: It’s the talk of the town and perceived favorably, but it hasn’t found widespread use…yet.
Charters will soon be able to lease as many as sixteen former or soon-to-be-closed public school buildings
The top five takeaways from his interviews with USED, PARCC, and Smarter Balanced
Takeaways from last week's interviews with USED, PARCC, and Smarter Balanced on the move to Common Core-aligned assessments
Online learning meets the Opportunity Culture
Charter schools: Underfunded after all these years
The following is Kathleen Porter-Magee's testimony to the Wisconsin State Legislature on the Common Core standards
Jeff Murray vividly reminds us what it's like to lose the school-choice lottery
Wayward Sons, a recent report published by the policy think tank the Third Way, finds that the average girl’s educational and career outcomes have improved over time, while boys tend to be faring worse.
When Ohio Governor John Kasich released his “Achievement Everywhere” school funding plan in late February it was widely criticized for “stealing from the poor and giving to the rich.”
Yesterday, I spent all day hitting the Refresh button on my email account. Probably 653 times. Why? Because the one school that we wanted for our children for next year was to announce its lottery results to those lucky few who would be chosen. 12 or 13 slots for sixth grade, out of an application pool of several hundred (wish I knew exactly how many).
Did you miss Ohio's recent event? A video is now available!
Recap of today's panel discussion around the findings from Fordham's survey of superintendents
The Justice Department has taken school-voucher policy to unstable ground
This report is based on the responses to an online survey conducted in Spring 2013 with 344 school district superintendents in Ohio. The survey covered seven education policies, specifically: Common Core State Standards, teacher evaluations, the Third Grade Reading Guarantee, open enrollment, A-to-F ratings for schools and districts, individualized learning (blended learning and credit flexibility), and school choice (charter schools and vouchers). It also included several questions on general attitudes towards school reform in Ohio and two trend items. Download today to discover the key findings!
When a Michigan House committee approved a measure that would allow students to skip Algebra 2 if they instead take a tec
Brookings says: Trash the TRIO programs
This interview with the United States Department of Education is the third and final installment in our Common Core testing consortia series
The second installment of the testing-consortia series is a conversation with Smarter Balanced
The inaugural installment of By the Company It Keeps, an interview series with some of ed reform’s most important contributors
The Dayton Early College Academy (DECA) is Dayton’s highest performing high school (district or charter), but is being trashed by a Columbus organization.
With potential tactics still in play to sustain the voucher expansion, it is likely that this ruling will simply be a pothole on the road to voucher expansion in Louisiana
Low standards, low expectations
