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.
Rushing to find a solution could swing the pendulum too far the other way
Early results say no. Chad Aldis
Data and policy options for stakeholders in Ohio
The ins and outs of financing charter school facilities.
Assessment is the drab side of schooling; but high-quality assessments are crucial.
Blended learning: electronic babysitting, latest fad or education breakthrough?
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.
A new Education Next study has implications for Ohio's OTES teacher evaluation protocols.
Andy Smarick came to Columbus to talk about options for urban education in the future...starting now.
Much analysis of Ohio's school report cards has already taken place in the mainstream media.
A quick first look at the trove of new performance data from around Ohio.
Worthington school board member’s testimony in support of Common Core
We take a look at a new report on college and career readiness as measured by ACT test scores.
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.
Achievement ratings alone don’t tell the whole story of a school.
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.
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.