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Ohio Gadfly Daily News 5-8-14
Some excellent articles on the Third Grade Reading Guarantee in Northeast Ohio highlight today's clips.
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Charter Schools
Sector Switchers: Why Catholic Schools Convert to Charters and What Happens Next
Although they’ve long been a favorite of working-class parents in search of safe, structured, morally solid environments, inner-city Catholic schools have struggled with finances and enrollment numbers for decades.
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Preventable Failure: Improvements in Long-Term Outcomes when High Schools Focused on the Ninth Grade Year
New research from the Consortium on Chicago School Research provides a relatively easy to-do list for district leaders who want to see more students progress toward graduation. Melissa Roderick and company use real-time data to identify and monitor pupil performance at one intervention point: the ninth-grade transition.
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The Nation's Report Card, Grade 12: Reading and Mathematics 2013
Today brought the eagerly awaited release of the 2013 NAEP results for 12th grade math and reading, which include scores for the nation as a whole as well as eleven pilot states.
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Will students recover from credit recovery?
In a new Education Next article, Sarah Carr examines the burgeoning online credit-recovery industry.
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Ohio Gadfly Daily News 5-7-14
Non-election news is hard to come by today. Enjoy what there is, bizarre as it is.
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Ohio Gadfly Daily News 5-6-14
Data scrubbing and building junking are just two of our topics for today's news roundup.
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Ohio Gadfly Daily News 5-5-14
Start the week with some fresh education news and commentary from across Ohio.
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Dad and the Diploma: The Difference Fathers Make for College Graduation
This AEI policy brief investigates whether involved fathers impact their kids’ chances of success in college—and finds that they surely do.
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Promise and Paradox: Measuring Students’ Non-cognitive Skills and the Impact of Schooling
There’s much interest in how schools can develop students’ non-cognitive skills, such as persistence and interpersonal skills, not just their academic prowess.
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Keep your eyes on the prize
The Education Department announced that in 2012, public-high-school graduation rates reached an all-time high of 80 percent—and that if states can maintain the speed, we could reach 90 percent by 2020.
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Ohio Gadfly Daily News 5-1-14
From Portsmouth to Lima and beyond today. Even folks in West Virginia are interested in what's going on in education in Ohio.
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Ohio Gadfly Daily News 4-30-14
The latest roundup of news - with Fordham commentary - from around Ohio.
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Progress in Dayton Public Schools’ teacher-policy reforms
A look at the past year in teacher-policy reforms in Dayton.
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Five things to know about Ohio’s vocational programs
Vocational education is big news and big business in Ohio - we attempt to unravel the layers to see just what students are getting for all the investment.
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Ohio Gadfly Daily News 4-25-14
A bunch of downers in today's Ohio education news. I'm glad it's Friday.
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It’s autumn for InBloom
InBloom, a nonprofit that warehoused and managed student data for many public-school districts, is tapping out after being
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Collective Bargaining Agreement Provisions in the Wake of Ohio Teacher Evaluation System Legislation
After a controversial change to a state law, what happens on the ground? This piece, from last month’s meeting of the Association for Education Finance and Policy, delves into one such case. In 2012, Ohio lawmakers approved the Ohio Teacher Evaluation System (OTES), which requires evaluations be based on student-academic-growth measures, formal observations, and classroom walkthroughs.
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Ohio Gadfly Daily News 4-23-14
A bumper crop of education stories today from across Ohio and even the Wall Street Journal.
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Ohio Gadfly Daily News 4-21-14
Back after a short spring break - education news and commentary from around Ohio
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Attaining Equitable Distribution of Effective Teachers in Public Schools
High-quality teachers are distributed across schools in patterns that resemble life in the desert, fleeing harsh terrain for soothing oases, fleeing poorer schools for more affluent.
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Do Standard Measures of Preschool Quality Used in Statewide Policy Predict School Readiness?
The 2008 federal economic stimulus act invested $5 billion to support early-childhood programs, including $500 million for the Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge, which pushes states and localities to participate in the Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS).
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Post tax-day fact: Ohio spends $20 billion on K-12 public education
For millions of Americans, yesterday was tax day. One of the major uses of those tax dollars is K-12 public education; in fact, Ohio spends approximately $20 billion per year on its public schools.
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Indiana’s Potemkin Standards?
As opposition to the Common Core State Standards has gained momentum in parts of the land, it’s important to ask what happens if a state changes its mind and renounces those standards—which, as we’ve long said, states have every right to