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Governance
Gadfly Bites 8/5/19 – Winners, losers, and what comes next
Fordham’s Aaron Churchill is quoted and blogs from Jessica Poiner are linked in this
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Commentary
Accountability & Testing
Time to bring the value back into Ohio’s “value added” school grades
NOTE: The Thomas B. Fordham Institute occasionally publishes guest commentaries on its blogs. The views expressed by guest authors do not necessarily reflect those of Fordham.
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Private School Choice
The long-term effects of private school choice on college enrollment and graduation
As with most education issues, the research on private school choice is a mixed bag. Some studies indicate positive effects, while others suggest neutral or negative effects. What the vast majority of studies have in common is a focus on short-term outcomes—mostly student test scores.
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School Finance
School funding in Ohio: How much is being spent and should we spend more?
In the coming weeks, I’ll be working on a blog series that digs into Ohio’s school funding system.
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Four things the budget didn’t do that Ohio lawmakers should tackle next
Last fall, Fordham began releasing a series of education reform proposals for policymakers to consider in the budget cycle.
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Gadfly Bites 7/29/19 – What’s next? “Board Members on Buses”?
We talked last week about the recent meetings of the elected school boards in Youngstown and Lorain.
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Charter Schools
Ohio is fast becoming a great place for quality charter schools
For many years, first-rate charter networks looked at Ohio and immediately “swiped left.” Sadly, the state’s charter sector had a well-earned reputation for mediocre performance, was too often mired in
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 7/24/19 – There’s so much awesomeness we have to cut back
As my loyal Gadfly Bites subscribers know very well (love to all five of you!), your humble clips compiler loves to unearth obscure stories from odd outlet
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 7/22/19 – “We cannot say that when we have a failing school that the status quo is acceptable.”
We’re still in Post-Budget Land around here, based on the available material for clips today.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 7/19/19 – “If we don’t do everything to help them succeed, it’s the kids we are failing. It’s on us.”
In case you missed it, Ohio has a
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Governance
Here’s where the budget landed on four big education policies
About a month ago, I took a look at four of the most significant education policies that were set to be debated in conference committee.
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Governance
Education in the state budget, at a glance
Governor Mike DeWine is expected to sign the state budget bill, House Bill 166, into law today. HB 166 is chock full of education provisions that extend far beyond the dollars and cents of funding allocations.
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Accountability & Testing
Getting to college is only half the battle
NOTE: The Thomas B. Fordham Institute occasionally publishes guest commentaries. Their views do not necessarily reflect those of Fordham.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 7/17/19 – Like she wasn’t even there…
Before we get into budget stuff, there are a couple of other items to talk about.
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Accountability & Testing
Tell high school students the truth about college readiness
Proficient (adj.): “Well advanced in an art, occupation, or branch of knowledge.” —Merriam Webster
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 7/15/19 – Choice is good
Chad trekked over to the Spectrum News offices last week to
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Career & Technical Education
Perkins career-technical pilot programs are good news for Ohio
Ohio has been locked in the jaws of a busy budget season for months. There’s been no shortage of debate on a variety of education policies, including graduation requirements, academic distress commissions, and school choice.
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Governance
Why “local control” won’t fix Ohio’s struggling school districts
NOTE: The Thomas B. Fordham Institute occasionally publishes guest commentaries. Their views do not necessarily reflect those of Fordham.
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Gadfly Bites 7/10/19 – Calling it like it is
Spectrum News 1 visited our conference room a while back to ask Chad
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Accountability & Testing
Nixing universal ACT or SAT testing would hurt Ohio’s smart, poor students
For many Ohio students, taking college entrance exams is a key milestone on the path from high school to college. Yet countless thousands have foregone these exams, effectively slamming the door on their opportunity to attend four-year colleges and universities.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 7/8/19 – Throwing things
The ECOT boogeyman looms large in this piece, rehashing the whole story from what is meant to be a brand new perspective.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 7/5/19 – Deflated
School districts in Ohio have been dealing with the scourge of grade inflation—blamed largely on dual enrollment in college courses—by doing away with the
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Gadfly Bites 7/3/19 – Focusing on the wrong things
From the What Did You Expect Department: A
