Gadfly Bites 6/26/24—Unvarnished
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Today, the Ohio House Primary and Secondary Education Committee voted unanimously to favorably report Senate Bill 168. The bill is expected to be considered by the full House on Wednesday, June 26.
State tests are an important annual check-in for parents, teachers, communities, and policymakers, as they provide an objective assessment of student achievement based on grade-level standards.
Note: Today, the Ohio House’s Primary and Secondary Education Committee heard testimony on Senate Bill 168 which would, among other things, deregulate many aspects of K-12 education in the stat
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What are the best ways to deploy finite resources for the betterment of young children? What inputs provide the most beneficial outcomes later in life? These are big, important questions whose answers matter to individuals, families, and society.
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One of the most routinely debated questions is whether charters provide a superior education when compared to the district alternative. Just prior to the pandemic, Fordham research showed that students attending brick-and-mortar charters in Ohio made significantly greater academic progress than their peers attending nearby district schools. Our latest research brief provides an updated analysis of brick-and-mortar charter school performance in the years after the pandemic (2021–22 and 2022–23).
Over the last few years, Ohio leaders have focused on improving education-to-workforce pathways through a variety of
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The Education Freedom Institute (EFI) recently released the newest iteration of its charter ecosystem rankings, its third such effort to gauge the health of states’ charter-school sectors.
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“Teaching to the test” is a common pejorative term that touches on a number of hot-button education policy issues—top-down mandates to schools, shrinking curriculum, hamstringing teacher autonomy and creativity, and dampening student interest in learning to name just a few.
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