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Charter Schools
Choices and Challenges: Charter School Performance in Perspective
A tricky line of research gets worthy treatment
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Charter Schools, Advanced Education
The first step is admitting you have a problem
Our Gadfly readers won’t
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Charter Schools
Louisiana vouchers need more to grow
About 8,000 children had already been promised vouchers for next year when the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled its method of funding unconstitutional
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Charter Schools
Portfolio management in the suburbs
Few school systems have embraced a crisis of opportunity quite like the school system in Reynoldsburg, Ohio.
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Charter Schools
Coalition of high performing charter schools discusses laws with Senate
A coalition that included high performing charter schools from Cleveland, Columbus and Dayton testified in front of the Senate Finance Committee’s Education Subcommittee on May 7th.
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Evidence-Based Learning, School Finance, Governance
Limitless: Education, The Reynoldsburg Way
The Reynoldsburg City School District, just east of Columbus, is far down the “portfolio management” path – further than probably any suburban school district of its size. This feature article discusses portfolio management and takes readers behind the scenes in Reynoldsburg.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Limitless: Education, The Reynoldsburg Way
A profile feature article about the Reynoldsburg City School District
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Charter Schools
Fordham’s Terry Ryan testifies in the Senate Finance Committee with high achieving charter school leaders
As the charter movement enters its third decade, it is imperative that policymakers and legislators understand the perspective of those schools that have succeeded in providing their students with a quality education.
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Charter Schools
How facility funding fails charter schools
Despite the surge in charter enrollment, charters still largely direct money from instruction, classroom support, and administration to their facilities
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Curriculum & Instruction
Can MOOCs rescue teacher PD?
At the least, MOOCs can stop the rising cost of PD—and, at best, could improve it
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Wayward Sons: The Emerging Gender Gap in Labor Markets and Education
The enduring damage of fatherless families
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Charter Schools
The state of charter authorizing
This report is great data on a critically important field
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Curriculum & Instruction, Advanced Education
Pearson crosses a line
It’s open season on Pearson, the corporation everyone loves to hate—but this time, though they have crossed a serious line, far too many state leaders and reformers are holding their fire
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Curriculum & Instruction
Diane Ravitch – Tea Party Darling
The last couple of weeks have witnessed unremitting and well-coordinated attacks on the Common Core academic standards
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Charter Schools
Charter boards, know thy duty
When boards are mere rubber stamps, questions about accountability, incentives, and conflicts of interest are sure to follow
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Charter Schools
The recovery school district
The most significant governance innovation since charter schools?
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You can put a dress on it and call it Sally, but it’s still bad news
The multinational textbook-publisher-testing conglomerate named Pearson has been a fixture in this week’s education news.
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Market-oriented education reforms’ rhetoric trumps reality
Broader/Bolder: Anti-poverty or just anti-reform?
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Curriculum & Instruction
The Nation’s Report Card: Economics 2012
Shocker: U.S. teens still economically illiterate
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Review: Redefining the School District in Tennessee
Is it time for Ohio and other states to take bolder steps toward turning around our most troubled schools and districts?
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Charter Schools
Rebooting charters: Charter school board capacity essential to school success
Capacity is something that requires ongoing maintenance and at least an annual critique.
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Losing Ohio’s seed corn: Lift the ceiling for gifted kids
High-quality gifted education for the state’s ablest students should be an imperative for Ohio.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Ohio’s college remediation rate crisis—and what can be done
Almost half of Ohio’s college freshman at public colleges and universities take remedial (high-school level) coursework in either math or English.
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Optimism from educators, researchers on the Common Core
The Common Core standards are considered by many educators and researchers to be an improvement compared to how educating students has been done in recent times.