A new Urban Institute series grades America’s public pension plans on three criteria: whether they place employees on a path to retirement security, create proper incentives to retain a productive workforce, and set aside enough funds to finance the future benefits promised to employees.
With belts tightening in communities across the land, education leaders are exploring novel ways to stretch the school dollar. One such approach is “personalized learning,” i.e., using technology to tailor coursework to individual students while making better use of teachers’ time.
On Friday, the Oklahoma legislature voted overwhelmingly to repeal the Common Core.
I joined the Twittersphere yesterday for a forum on blended learning moderated by Matt Miller, superintendent of Mentor School District in Northeast Ohio.
Fordham’s Chad Aldis appeared on two radio stations in Ohio yesterday, talking up Common Core. First up - WKBN radio in the Youngstown area (Chad comes in about the 30 minute mark on this one).
EdChoice vouchers, food service in Lima, gifted services, and PARCC pilot testing are in the news.
PISA and NAEP scores have long been dismal for students in the United States. What happens when those results are correlated and compared? We look at a new report which does just that.
It's about darn time that school districts get pushback for avoiding legitimate public records requests.
MBR changes in the Senate maintain commitment to Common Core.
Senate MBR changes to value-add leave the Ohio Gadfly confused and fuming.
Gubernatorial candidates, open enrollment scrooges, and Common Core haters all feature in today's clips.
America’s educational shortcomings are not limited to disadvantaged kids. Far from it, as Eric Hanushek, Paul Peterson, and Ludger Woessmann explain in this recently released Education Next/PEPG study. Looking at the NAEP scores in every U.S. state and the PISA results of all thirty-four OECD countries, Hanushek et al.
Kudos to Andy Rotherham and Chad Aldeman for taking on, via a nifty new website and this recent Washington Post article, t
How often are kids reading, and which books are they choosing? Two recent reports took a crack at finding the answers.
Every year, the National Association of Charter School Authorizers draws on survey data from half of the nation’s charter-school authorizers to assess the quality of their practices, outlining a set of twelve essential practices and scoring authorizers based on their adherence to them. In this sixth edition, the results are mixed.
Everyone agrees that a good teacher makes all the difference in the world—but that’s where the agreement ends. This new report from Brookings adds to the body of research examining how to decide what makes a good teacher, specifically looking at teacher-evaluations systems in four moderate-sized urban districts in an effort to suggest ways to improve them.
After a rancorous mayoral race, the city of Newark has elected Ras Baraka—a decision surely to hold repercussions for the city’s ambitious education reform agenda.
School Choice Ohio has initiated legal action against Springfield and Cincinnati schools for denying them student directory information requested under Ohio public records law, while they were regularly providing that same information to other nonprofits.
Something unsavory is underway at the Department of Education and in the world of preschool zealotry. They seem to be merging—and in so doing, they risk the integrity of our education-data system.
We talk about TGRG fatigue and Lima beans, among other topics in the news.
Lots to cover today: opinions, revelations, history lessons, and accounting included.
We think outside the box on a thorny education issue often at the heart of the school choice debate.
We take a look at the School Choice Demonstration Project's latest examination of charter funding across the country.
Education reforms take many forms and can affect school districts differently. Recent news stories from Northeast Ohio show some positive momentum for several important reform efforts.
A recent EducationNext article pinpoints some weakness in online credit recovery programs which Ohio is experiencing first hand.
A recent EducationNext article pinpoints some weakness in online credit recovery programs which Ohio is experiencing first hand.
