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School Finance
School funding in Ohio: Are poor districts getting a fair share?
The first two blog posts in my series about school funding lo
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Teachers & School Leaders
A culture of coaching
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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School Finance
School funding in Ohio: Do demographic trends justify higher spending?
In late June, Representatives Robert Cupp and John Patterson introduced legislation that would overhaul the state’s school funding system.
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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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School Finance
The rich get richer under a Senate school funding provision
Covering a gamut of issues and spanning thousands of pages, the state budget legislation is apt to contain at least a few harebrained policy ideas.
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Teachers & School Leaders
Teach For America and Teacher Quality: Increasing Achievement Over Time
Teach For America (TFA) has been recruiting and placing college graduates into underserved classrooms since 1989. Throughout this thirty-year tenure, the program’s teacher-training methods and recruitment strategies have evolved.
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Teachers & School Leaders
Tackling Ohio’s toughest education challenges: Eliminate mandatory teacher-salary schedules
Editor’s Note: Back in September 2018, awaiting the election of our next governor, we at the Fordham I
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Advanced Education
Tackling Ohio’s toughest education challenges: Provide bonuses to teachers when students pass AP/IB exams
Editor’s Note: Back in September 2018, awaiting the election of our next governor, we at the Fordham Institute began developing a set of policy proposals that we belie
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School Finance
Reliably identifying low-income students should be a priority
This spring’s school funding debates have revolved around the needs of poor students. Governor Mike DeWine has proposed a significant bump in state spending targeted at low-income students.
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Teachers & School Leaders
Tackling Ohio’s toughest education challenges: Tie tenure to teacher performance
Editor’s Note: Back in September 2018, awaiting the election of our next governor, we at the Fordham Institute began developing a set of policy proposals that we believe can lead to increased achievement and greater o
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Give charter schools the freedom to hire great teachers
Starting in the early 2000s, with the implementation of No Child Left Behind, federal law required states to ensure that all public school teachers were “highly qualified.” That meant having a bachelor’s degree, full state certification, and subject-area mastery, often
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School Finance
Tackling Ohio's toughest education challenges: Merge state funding components into the core Opportunity Grant
Editor’s Note: Back in September 2018, awaiting the election of our next governor, we at the Fordham Institute began developing a set of policy proposals that we believe can lead to increased achievement and greater opportunities for Ohio students. This is one of those policy proposals.
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School Finance
Governor DeWine’s budget shows his commitment to meeting Ohio’s attainment goal
For the past few years, Ohio policymakers, educators, and advocates have been paying close attention to a “looming crisis” in educational attainment.
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Teachers & School Leaders
Great teachers make for great principals
Not long ago, we at Fordham collaborated with Public Impact to call attention to school districts’ uneven practices when recruiting and s
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School Finance
The Cupp-Patterson school funding plan: Questions still loom large
Much of the Capitol Square chatter revolves around the school funding plan put forward last month by Representatives Robert Cupp and John Patterson.
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Teachers & School Leaders
NCTQ’s new book is a must-read for every aspiring teacher
For nearly two decades, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) has published research, analyses, and evaluations on various aspects of the teaching profession.
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Advanced Education
Tackling Ohio’s toughest education challenges: Make AP/IB and industry credentialing exams free for low-income students
Editor’s Note: Back in September 2018, awaiting the election of our next governor, we at the Fordham Institute began developing a set of policy proposals that we belie
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School Finance
Testimony given before the House Finance Subcommittee on Primary and Secondary Education on HB 166 – 4/8/19
NOTE: The Finance Subcommittee on Primary and Secondary Education of the Ohio House of Representatives today heard testimony on HB 166, the state’s biennial budget bill.
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School Finance
The strengths and weaknesses of the Cupp-Patterson school funding plan
Last week, Ohio Representatives Robert Cupp and John Patterson unveiled their much-anticipated school funding plan.
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Standards
Student completion data for Ohio colleges
In late 2018, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center published its annual data on national college completion rates.
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School Finance
Tackling Ohio's toughest education challenges: Phase out the use of caps and guarantees
Editor’s Note: Back in September 2018, awaiting the election of our next governor, we at the Fordham Institute began developing a set of policy proposals that we belie
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Teachers & School Leaders
A Fair Chance: Simple steps to strengthen and diversify the teacher workforce
Each year, teacher candidates across the nation take licensing exams designed to check their mastery of pedagogy and of content knowledge. Though each state selects its own licensing tests, the Praxis Elementary Education: Multiple Subjects assessment, created by the Education Testing Service (ETS), is the most widely used elementary content exam.
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Advanced Education
Tackling Ohio’s toughest education challenges: Incentivize schools to help students earn high-value industry credentials
Editor’s Note: Back in September 2018, awaiting the election of our next governor, we at the Fordham Institute began developing a set of policy proposals that we belie
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Accountability & Testing, Standards, Teachers & School Leaders
Fulfilling the Readiness Promise: Twenty-Five Education policy ideas for Ohio
Creating smart, coherent education policy is painstaking work; there are technical, budgetary, and political challenges at almost every turn. But it is some of the most important work that state leaders can undertake.
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Teachers & School Leaders
Tackling Ohio’s toughest education challenges: Develop teacher residencies
Editor’s Note: Back in September 2018, awaiting the election of our next governor, we at the Fordham Institute began developing a set of policy proposals that we belie
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Accountability & Testing, School Finance, Teachers & School Leaders
Ohio Education By the Numbers—2019 Edition
"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." -- Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. That sentiment has never been more profound and applicable than it is today.
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Teachers & School Leaders
How state reforms affected collective bargaining agreements
Elaborate collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) have for decades enshrined the “factory model” into public education.
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School Finance
A cautionary tale: Universal childcare in Quebec
In Ohio and across the nation, policymakers are contemplating sizeable increases to public outlays for early childhood programs, including ex
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Teachers & School Leaders
What impact will the Janus decision have in Ohio?
We invite you to join us in Columbus on Thursday, November 29 for an important conversation on the implications of Janus in Ohio and how it's likely to impact education.
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Ohio’s average ACT score dropped, but that’s not a bad thing
A few weeks ago, officials at ACT released a report that breaks down the ACT test results of the 2018 graduating class.
