Ten things Ohio Common Core opponents don’t want you to know
As another legislative assault on the Common Core in Ohio begins, here's a few things you might want to know.
As another legislative assault on the Common Core in Ohio begins, here's a few things you might want to know.
Ohio’s new teacher-evaluation system requires evaluators to conduct two, formal thirty-minute classroom observations. Yet these legally prescribed observations seem ripe for compliance and rote box-checking; in fact, they may not be quite the impetus for school-wide improvement that policymakers had hoped for.
We look for - and find - the public schools ranked in the top 10 percent on Ohio’s value-added measure for reading in each of the past four years.
We take a look at the evidence for and against "double dosing" in middle school math.
This piece was originally published the United States Chamber of Commerce’s website on Wednesday, July 23, 2014. Six days later, two legislators proposed a new legislative assault on Ohio’s New Learning Standards, which include the Common Core State Standards in math and English language arts.
Do Ohio's multiple accountability "systems" erode the very foundation of accountability?
First of a two-part analysis looking at early indicators to future success.
Why do many high-achieving students struggle to sustain their academic performance over time? Eric Parsons, an economist at the University of Missouri, takes a crack at finding the answer—and unearths a paradox. In this study, he follows a single cohort of high-performing students in Missouri from grade 3 through grade 9 to see which school factors influence their academic success.
Roughly 30,000 kids in Ohio take advantage of a publicly funded voucher (or “scholarship”).
Nearly three decades ago, 320 students below the age of thirteen took the SAT math or verbal test and placed in the top 1 in 10,000 for their math- or verbal-reasoning ability (some called them “scary smart”).
The appointment of former educator and experienced administrator Carmen Fariña as the new chancellor of New York City’s one-million-student public school system has been met with cautious optimism from several fronts, spanning from those who hope she will
Earlier this week, the New York Times featured an editorial on gifted education, noting that even our best students were in the middle of the pack in the recent PISA results.
A better approach to “affirmative action”
Education Trust discovers high achievers
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed legislation last week that places a one-year moratorium on new virtual charter schools outside Chicago and directs a state commission to study the effects and costs of virtual charters.
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It’s open season on Pearson, the corporation everyone loves to hate—but this time, though they have crossed a serious line, far too many state leaders and reformers are holding their fire
Information is power
The Obama administration’s budget proposal was late to the par
Re-examining the College Board's AP data for Midwestern states
A recap of Fordham's visit to Ohio's lone charter dedicated to serving gifted students
March 20 Columbus event about gifted education
Ohio's college-bound students do well, but room aplenty to improve
Divided we stand
Up with selective public high schools!
Profiles of six public high schools that serve poor and minority students to high levels of excellence.
Invest in the game-changers
Our annual analysis of school performance in our home state's major urban areas, plus a projection of proficiency rates when the PARCC exams arrive in 2014-15.
Everyone and their mothers are talking about the so-called “fiscal cliff”—the automatic budget cuts and tax increases that will affect all federal discretionary spending programs, cut you off in traffic, steal an old lady’s handbag, and wreak general havoc if lawmakers don’t co
We need to raise the ceiling for Ohio's highest-performing students