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Advanced Education
Bursting the proficiency bubble: How to stop neglecting low-income high achievers
By Brandon L. Wright
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Advanced Education
Starting the school year on a positive note: Five key suggestions for parents
The new school year is on the horizon, and you’re already feeling somewhat apprehensive. You know that transitions are a challenge for your gifted child— whether it’s a new school, a new grade level, a new teacher, or all of the above. You want to make sure that your child’s new teacher understands that your gifted child has learning needs that differ from others.
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Advanced Education
States should use ESSA to do right by high-achieving students
By Chester E. Finn, Jr.
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Charter Schools
Pathway to Success: Columbus Collegiate Academy embodies high expectations for all students
Columbus Collegiate Academy (CCA) epitomizes the relentlessness and vision necessary to close achievement gaps in urban education. Started in the basement of a church with 57 students in 2008, CCA evolved into one of the city’s top-performing middle schools.
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Charter Schools
Fordham Institute congratulates winners of Ohio’s $25 million competitive grant for charter school facilities
Today, the Ohio Facilities Construction Commission announced eight winners in the state’s inaugural round of funding to charter schools to purchase, construct, or renovate classroom facilities.
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Charter Schools
Pathway to Success: DECA prepares students for rigors of college, realities of life
Too much of what we hear about urban public schools in America is disheartening. A student’s zip code—whether she comes from poverty or economic privilege—often predicts her likelihood of educational (and later-life) success.
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Charter Schools
The Sharpton-Moskowitz alliance
Now that New York’s students are heading into another year of Common Core-aligned standardized testing, it’s probably time to start taking bets on exactly how many kids will actually show up.
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Accountability & Testing, Charter Schools
2015 Fordham Sponsorship Annual Report
The 2015 Fordham Sponsorship Annual Report is our opportunity to share the Fordham Foundation’s work as the sponsor of eleven schools serving approximately 3,200 students in five cities, and our related policy work in Ohio and nationally.
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Charter Schools
The Proper Perspective: An honest exchange about Ohio’s Charter School Program grant
Do Ohio's quality charter schools deserve expansion funding?
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Charter Schools
Accelerate Great Schools announces its first grants
Great news for Queen City parents and students
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Charter Schools
Quality in Adversity: Lessons from Ohio's best charter schools
Though charter schools are fiercely debated in Ohio, too rarely are the voices of charter leaders actually heard. This report from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute surveys the leaders of the highest-performing Buckeye charters to take stock of their views on sector quality, accountability, and replication and growth.
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Charter Schools
Unsafe harbor: How to ensure Ohio’s testing transitions don’t sink the state’s voucher students
It's time to unshackle voucher eligibility
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Charter Schools
Ohio’s charter school closure law is becoming irrelevant, and that’s a good thing
New reforms should be more effective at closing bad schools
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Charter Schools
Past Ohio CSP winners have delivered results, future winners can do the same
A look back at the federal Charter School Program in the Buckeye State
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Charter Schools
Charter leaders making a difference in Columbus
Improving the lives of their students and their city
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Advanced Education
AP in the Queen City: Blended model can expand access and nudge Ohio policy forward
New steps to expand AP course access in Cincinnati
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Charter Schools
Choice, Information, and Constrained Options: School Transfers in a Stratified Educational System
Revisiting a 1996 accountability effort in Chicago
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Charter Schools
Progress and problems: Checking in on the Cleveland Plan
A reality check amid signs of true progress
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Charter Schools
Text of testimony given before the Ohio Board of Education 9/15/15
Don't lose sight of oversight improvements already made
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Charter Schools
A solution to Ohio’s course access problem
Governance, funding, and accountability fixes
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Charter Schools
Expansive school choice demands new rules for school sports in Ohio
New structure, new rules
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Charter Schools
Public policy and nonpublic schools: How the budget bill impacts private schools
Vouchers, graduation requirements, and more
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Charter Schools
Seizing the Future: How Ohio’s Career and Technical Education Programs Fuse Academic Rigor and Real-World Experiences to Prepare Students for College and Work
This is not your grandfather's vocational education
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