Commentary
Advanced Education
How do Ohio's AP scores stack up?
Ohio's college-bound students do well, but room aplenty to improve
Advanced Education
Commentary
Advanced Education
Does Sorting Students Improve Scores? An Analysis of Class Composition
Divided we stand
Commentary
Advanced Education
The Missing One-Offs: The Hidden Supply of High-Achieving, Low-Income Students
Up with selective public high schools!
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Accountability & Testing, Advanced Education
Needles in a Haystack
Profiles of six public high schools that serve poor and minority students to high levels of excellence.
Commentary
Commentary
Advanced Education
The costs of action and inaction
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
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Advanced Education
Young, gifted, and neglected
We need to raise the ceiling for Ohio's highest-performing students
Commentary
Advanced Education
Exam Schools: Inside America's Most Selective Public High Schools
The newest addition to Fordham's library, co-authored by Checker and Jessica Hockett
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Advanced Education
Education takes off: Rocketships and high flyers abound
Aggressive marketing campaigns have led to an
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Charter Schools, Advanced Education
Accountability and perspective needed for drop-out recovery charters
Drop-out recovery charter schools annually serve about 20 percent of Ohio’s charter students but have never been held accountable for the performance of their students.
Commentary
Advanced Education
Taking care of Florida’s high flyers
Fast-tracking the future in the Sunshine State
Commentary
Advanced Education
Unsolved problems—and signs of hope—as 2012 dawns
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.