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Standards, Accountability & Testing
Effort to repeal Common Core leaves Ohio school board member “baffled”
Worthington school board member’s testimony in support of Common Core
Commentary
Standards
The problems with House Bill 597
Part Two of our analysis of the problems with the latest legislative assault on Common Core in Ohio.
Commentary
Standards
Pulling an Indiana: How House Bill 597 mimics the Common Core
Think we're getting something new from HB597? Think again.
Commentary
Standards
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.
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Charter Schools, Standards, Accountability & Testing
For higher performance, use informal channels of teacher feedback
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.
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Standards, Accountability & Testing
Ohio’s high-flying public schools, in reading
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.
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Accountability & Testing, Standards, Curriculum & Instruction
Spending More of the School Day in Math Class: Evidence From a Regression Discontinuity in Middle School
We take a look at the evidence for and against "double dosing" in middle school math.
Commentary
Accountability & Testing, Standards
Ohio's New Learning Standards: Helping, not hampering
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.
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Accountability & Testing, Standards
Is alternative accountability real accountability?
Do Ohio's multiple accountability "systems" erode the very foundation of accountability?
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Accountability & Testing, Standards
Standardized Tests: Correlation to Future Successes? (Part I of II)
First of a two-part analysis looking at early indicators to future success.
Commentary
Advanced Education
The Icarus Syndrome: Why Do Some High Flyers Soar While Others Fall?
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.
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Accountability & Testing, School Finance, Private School Choice
Pluck and Tenacity: How five private schools in Ohio have adapted to vouchers
Roughly 30,000 kids in Ohio take advantage of a publicly funded voucher (or “scholarship”).
Commentary
Advanced Education
Who Rises to the Top? Early Indicators
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”).
Commentary
Advanced Education
Status quo has got to go
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
Commentary
Advanced Education, Charter Schools
Losing out on big potential
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.
Commentary
Advanced Education
Informing Students about Their College Options: A Proposal for Broadening the Expanding College Opportunities Project
A better approach to “affirmative action”
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Curriculum & Instruction, Advanced Education
Finding America’s Missing AP and IB Students
Education Trust discovers high achievers
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction, Advanced Education
Standing athwart the Internet, yelling Stop!
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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Charter Schools, Advanced Education
The first step is admitting you have a problem
Our Gadfly readers won’t
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Evidence-Based Learning, School Finance, Governance
Limitless: Education, The Reynoldsburg Way
The Reynoldsburg City School District, just east of Columbus, is far down the “portfolio management” path – further than probably any suburban school district of its size. This feature article discusses portfolio management and takes readers behind the scenes in Reynoldsburg.
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Curriculum & Instruction, Advanced Education
Pearson crosses a line
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
Commentary
Advanced Education
Expanding College Opportunities for High-Achieving, Low Income Students
Information is power
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction, Advanced Education
Failing the gifted—and everyone else
The Obama administration’s budget proposal was late to the par
Commentary
Advanced Education
Does the percentage of students taking AP exams explain state level results?
Re-examining the College Board's AP data for Midwestern states
Commentary
Advanced Education
Charters for the gifted and talented?
A recap of Fordham's visit to Ohio's lone charter dedicated to serving gifted students
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Advanced Education
Educating Our Brightest: Improving Gifted Education to Boost Ohio’s Prosperity and Success
March 20 Columbus event about gifted education
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Advanced Education
How do Ohio's AP scores stack up?
Ohio's college-bound students do well, but room aplenty to improve
Commentary
Advanced Education
Does Sorting Students Improve Scores? An Analysis of Class Composition
Divided we stand
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School Finance, Governance
Steps in the Right Direction
Dr. Paul Hill evaluates Governor John Kasich's education budget proposal.
Commentary
Advanced Education
The Missing One-Offs: The Hidden Supply of High-Achieving, Low-Income Students
Up with selective public high schools!