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Commentary
4.10.2014
Advanced Education

The Icarus Syndrome: Why Do Some High Flyers Soar While Others Fall?

Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.

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.

Commentary
1.9.2014
Advanced Education

Who Rises to the Top? Early Indicators

Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.

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
1.2.2014
Advanced Education

Status quo has got to go

The Education Gadfly

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
12.19.2013
Advanced Education, Charter Schools

Losing out on big potential

The Education Gadfly

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
5.29.2013
Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction, Advanced Education

Standing athwart the Internet, yelling Stop!

The Education Gadfly

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.

Commentary
5.1.2013
Curriculum & Instruction, Advanced Education

Pearson crosses a line

Kathleen Porter-Magee

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
4.10.2013
Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction, Advanced Education

Failing the gifted—and everyone else

The Education Gadfly

The Obama administration’s budget proposal was late to the par

Report
1.9.2013
Accountability & Testing, Advanced Education

Needles in a Haystack

Peter Meyer

Profiles of six public high schools that serve poor and minority students to high levels of excellence.

Report
12.19.2012
Accountability & Testing, Charter Schools, Standards

2011-12 Ohio Report Card Analysis

Aaron Churchill

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.

Commentary
12.12.2012
Advanced Education

The costs of action and inaction

The Education Gadfly

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

Commentary
10.9.2012
Advanced Education

Young, gifted, and neglected

Chester E. Finn, Jr.

We need to raise the ceiling for Ohio's highest-performing students

Report
5.18.2012
Standards, Teachers & School Leaders

Future Shock: Early Common Core implementation lessons from Ohio

With the 2014-15 Common-Core transition looming, we wondered: How are Ohio’s educators preparing themselves for this big change? Who is doing this work and what can other schools and districts learn from the early adopters? What are lessons, hopes, and fears facing those on the frontlines who have to lead Ohio’s embrace of significantly more rigorous academic standards?

Commentary
12.21.2011
Advanced Education

Unsolved problems—and signs of hope—as 2012 dawns

Chester E. Finn, Jr.

The central problem besetting K-12 education in the United States today is still—as for almost thirty years now—that far too few of our kids are learning nearly enough for their own or the nation’s good. And the gains we’ve made, though well worth making, have been meager (and largely confined to math), are trumped by gains in other countries, and evaporate by the end of high school.

Report
8.15.2007
Accountability & Testing, Charter Schools, Standards

2006-07 Ohio Report Cards

Emmy L. Partin, Terry Ryan

Despite a decade of significant school reform efforts in Ohio, students in the state's largest cities still struggle mightily to meet basic academic standards and are nowhere close to achieving the goals set by the federal No Child Left Behind law, according to an analysis of the latest Ohio school report-card data.