A charter school leader responds to charter critic
John Dues, school director for Columbus Collegiate Academy, wrote a response to a charter-school critic's piece that recently appeared as a Letter to the Editor in The Columbus Dispatch.
John Dues, school director for Columbus Collegiate Academy, wrote a response to a charter-school critic's piece that recently appeared as a Letter to the Editor in The Columbus Dispatch.
Discover the three canards about charter schools that have been repeated in news stories and by anti-charter folks in Ohio.
Traditional district boundaries are becoming increasingly blurred.
Ohio’s urban educational systems are talent deserts - Teach For America provides water, and if done right, oases of talent
The Fordham Institute has been engaged in a wide range of conversations recently, ranging from the Common Core to teacher evaluations in subjects without well-established exams. If you’ve missed any of these events or publications, check out the following notes.
According to a report by the National Center for Education Statistics, the United States is experiencing an increase in the number of English language learners (ELL) served in the K-12 educational system.
Grover Whitehurst, Matthew Chingos, and Michael Gallaher of the Brookings Institution examine school districts in relation to student achievement, in the aptly-titled report, Do Districts Matter?
A glimpse of the latest Ohio education headlines
This article originally appeared in Carnegie Mellon Today. It is reprinted with permission.
In recent weeks, however, the anti-charter crowd has been working the state’s newspapers to spread half-truths and canards about Ohio’s charter school program.
Districts' traditional boundary lines continue to blur
Mathematica doesn’t find the magic formula for KIPP’s success. But, there are a few tantalizing results.
In which Mike addresses the left's main concerns with voucher programs
But because charters and Catholic schools share similar traits and comparable missions in serving inner-city, low-income youth, there ought to be equal opportunities for each sector to thrive
As charters evolve, so must the rules
The New York Times published a semi-balanced story today on the growth of the private school-choice movement
Much has happened in the charter sector in the last twenty years, but the laws ruling its governance largely remain the same
Review by Terry Ryan of Fordham's latest report
Fordham’s new policy brief by Adam Emerson, “Governance in the Charter School Sector: Time for a Reboot,” tackles the governance issue head-on.
This Q&A with T.J. Wallace, the executive director for Dayton Liberty Academies, is the sixth of our seven-part series on school leadership.
The Fordham Institute has been engaged in a wide range of conversations recently, ranging from gifted-student education to Common Core to charter school quality.
Virtually no accountability measures exist in most of the nation’s special-education voucher programs, including the largest such program in the United States, Florida’s McKay Scholarship for Students with Disabilities
Senate Bill 243, while a step in the right direction, does not go far enough
Terry Ryan was a guest of the Ohio League of Women Voters today during their annual Statehouse Day, participating in a panel session on education funding in Ohio with Dr. William Phillis, Executive Director of The Ohio Coalition for Equity & Adequacy of School Funding.
Strong authorizers can improve charter school quality
The National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) publishes an annual report that collects self-reported survey data from authorizers, which indicate the extent to which they comply with the “Index of Essential Practices.”
Whatever happens next, and however disappointing that litigation may be, at least the Alabama Supreme Court corrected what was a mockery of the legislative process
A five-city, cross-state comparison of charter school quality
The definitive story of New Orleans school reform
A fierce school-choice debate rages in Alabama—but the threat to the Common Core standards has receded, for now.