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Gadfly Bites - 10/13/14
The strike ends, grades will be weighted, the curve is ruined, and apparently no one likes taking tests.
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Educational improvement requires quality data and research
Data gurus raise prickly issues around the issue of boosting teacher quality.
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Gadfly Bites - 10/7/14
Progress in Cleveland (?), stealth negotiations (?), and the return of Common Core hearings (?).
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First year teachers: 'Sink or swim' has to stop
Why do first year teachers leave the profession, and what can be done about it?
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Charter Schools
Breakthroughs in Time, Talent, and Technology: Next Generation Learning Models in Public Charter Schools
Blended learning: electronic babysitting, latest fad or education breakthrough?
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Standards
International Benchmarking: State and National Education Performance Standards
The "Massachusetts Miracle" was more than just higher standards implemented well.
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Charter Schools
Exploring the connection between funding and quality in charter schools
Funding and quality in charter schools, views from 50,000 fee down to an individual school.
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Gadfly Bites - 10/6/14
Less than a month until it’s all over and the gubernatorial race in Ohio is trending rather lopsided. Problem is, certain issues that typically arise during a contested race just haven’t gotten a lot of play this time around.
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Gadfly Bites - 10/3/14
Board of ed candidate surveys, curbing micromanagement, and doing the work required to help boys become young men
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Gadfly Bites - 10/2/14
Testing percentages, joining the past, and Cleveland already knows its charters thanks.
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Examining the Relationship Between Teachers' Instructional Practices and Students' Mathematics Achievement
Significant boosts, but a flawed study. Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.
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Gadfly Bites - 10/1/14
The wolves at the charter school doors, school breakfasts, Lima vs. Columbus, and more weird stuff.
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Charter Schools
Innovation Ohio and OEA fail to help anyone 'know' anything
Attempt at "transparency" looks more like data spin.
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Gadfly Bites - 9/30/14
The college-go?ing mindset, Ohio makes a top 10 list, and the 2014 Teacher of the Year.
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Gadfly Bites - 9/29/14
Ohio v Kentucky on teacher disciplinary actions, more picketing, and where have all the high schoolers gone.
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Gadfly Bites - 9/26/14
Gubernatorial candidates on education, students bucking the odds in the CLE, and it oughta be a law.
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Gadfly Bites - 9/25/14
Bus driver shortage in Cincy, "spillover" in Reynoldsburg, and Common Core on the lake shore.
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Gadfly Bites - 9/24/14
Report cards, public math problems, the future of Common Core hearings, and more.
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Gadfly Bites - 9/23/14
The "new era of accountability in Ohio, private school merger update, and where IS that state board of ed anyway?
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Standards, Accountability & Testing
A portrait of Ohio at the cusp of a new era
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.
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Ninth grade: the new ‘make or break’ year
More students fail ninth than any other in high school, and a disproportionate number of students who are held back in ninth grade subsequently drop out.
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The parent trigger hits Columbus: go time or time to go away
Columbus City Schools faces the reality of Ohio's "parent trigger" law for the first time.
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Accountability & Testing, Curriculum & Instruction
Getting classroom observations right
A new Education Next study has implications for Ohio's OTES teacher evaluation protocols.
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Charter Schools
Calling Ohio’s urban education providers into the future
Andy Smarick came to Columbus to talk about options for urban education in the future...starting now.
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Accountability & Testing
Ohio’s school report cards in the press
Much analysis of Ohio's school report cards has already taken place in the mainstream media.
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Accountability & Testing, Charter Schools
Poised for Progress: Analysis of Ohio's School Report Cards 2013-14
On September 12th, Ohio released school report-card ratings for the 2013-14 school year. This report compiles and analyzes the statewide data, with special attention given to the quality of public schools in the Ohio Big Eight urban areas: Akron, Canton, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Toledo, and Youngstown (both district and charter school sectors).
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Gadfly Bites - 9/22/14
More opining on state report cards, handicapping a state Supreme Court case, and how much testing?
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Gadfly Bites - 9/19/14
The Truth in Numbers review of State Auditor candidate John Patrick Carney has been published in the PD. Fordham is name-checked in discussion of charter school quality in Ohio, and a link is made to last year’s Parsing Performance report by our own Aaron Churchill.
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