New research on Ohio charter quality and policy makes headlines, creating consensus that change is needed
Ohio on the cusp of big changes to charter school law
Ohio on the cusp of big changes to charter school law
Editor's note: This post originally appeared in a slightly different form at Bellwether Education Partners' Ahead of the Herd blog.
Editor's note: This post originally appeared in slightly different form at the Chartering Quality blog.
Fixing Ohio’s charter law is a difficult, but necessary task. Chad L. Aldis and Aaron Churchill
Setting out the case for ten policy recommendations to improve the quality of Ohio's charter school sector.
An important new look at charter school quality in Ohio.
Good school choice practices emerge from a charter school crisis in Indianapolis.
The ins and outs of financing charter school facilities.
There is no room for Sisyphus in the fight to improve Ohio schools.
Blended learning: electronic babysitting, latest fad or education breakthrough?
The "Massachusetts Miracle" was more than just higher standards implemented well.
Funding and quality in charter schools, views from 50,000 fee down to an individual school.
Attempt at "transparency" looks more like data spin.
The Buckeye State is at the cusp of an era of new emphasis in K-12 education - the college-and-career-ready era. We look at Ohio's report cards in this new light.
Andy Smarick came to Columbus to talk about options for urban education in the future...starting now.
Worthington school board member’s testimony in support of Common Core
Supporting parents and students must be uppermost in any discussion of charter school authorization reform in Ohio. So far, their concerns seem to be last in consideration.
Part Two of our analysis of the problems with the latest legislative assault on Common Core in Ohio.
Think we're getting something new from HB597? Think again.
Do private schools taking "cherry pick" their voucher students?
The closure of a charter school in Cincinnati shows that Ohio's accountability system can work, but needs some tweaks.
As another legislative assault on the Common Core in Ohio begins, here's a few things you might want to know.
Ohio’s new teacher-evaluation system requires evaluators to conduct two, formal thirty-minute classroom observations. Yet these legally prescribed observations seem ripe for compliance and rote box-checking; in fact, they may not be quite the impetus for school-wide improvement that policymakers had hoped for.
We look for - and find - the public schools ranked in the top 10 percent on Ohio’s value-added measure for reading in each of the past four years.
We take a look at the evidence for and against "double dosing" in middle school math.
Short review of a new report from the University of Arkansas, with an Ohio perspective.
This piece was originally published the United States Chamber of Commerce’s website on Wednesday, July 23, 2014. Six days later, two legislators proposed a new legislative assault on Ohio’s New Learning Standards, which include the Common Core State Standards in math and English language arts.
This new report from the University of Arkansas compares the productivity of public charter schools and district schools, both in terms of cost effectiveness and return on investment (ROI).
Do Ohio's multiple accountability "systems" erode the very foundation of accountability?
First of a two-part analysis looking at early indicators to future success.