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Standards, Accountability & Testing
Deconstructing Ohio’s testing report recommendations
"Test mania" debunked - now for the real work to improve testing in Ohio
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Charter Schools, Accountability & Testing
What Schools Do Families Want (and Why)?
Real parent preferences revealed.
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Standards, Accountability & Testing
Cheers and Jeers for January 26, 2015
The good and the bad in recent Ohio education news.
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Accountability & Testing
Fixing No Child Left Behind: Oral testimony of Martin West
Editor's note: This testimony was presented at a hearing of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions onFixing No Child Left Behind: Testing and Accountability on January, 21, 2015.
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Accountability & Testing
Timely Ohio report could change the ESEA testing debate
Though hardly the only issue to be debated during the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education act, annual testing has taken center stage in discussions so far.
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Charter Schools
Straightening the record on charters and local tax revenue
Clearing up common misconceptions
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Charter Schools
Filling the Skills Gap: Massachusetts Vocational-Technical Schools and Business Partnerships
Technical high schools can thrive with the support of local businesses
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Charter Schools
Ohio charter quality and policy continues to make headlines; editorials spotlight differing views
Reaction to two recent Fordham-sponsored reports on charter schools continues.
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Charter Schools
New research on Ohio charter quality and policy makes headlines, creating consensus that change is needed
Ohio on the cusp of big changes to charter school law
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Charter Schools
Ohio problems, Ohio solutions
Editor's note: This post originally appeared in a slightly different form at Bellwether Education Partners' Ahead of the Herd blog.
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Charter Schools
Stuck inside of Cleveland with the Buckeye Blues again
Editor's note: This post originally appeared in slightly different form at the Chartering Quality blog.
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Charter Schools
The Road to Redemption: Ten Policy Recommendations for Ohio's Charter School Sector
Fixing Ohio’s charter law is a difficult, but necessary task. Chad L. Aldis and Aaron Churchill
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Charter Schools
The Road to Redemption: Foreword
Setting out the case for ten policy recommendations to improve the quality of Ohio's charter school sector.
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Charter Schools, Governance
The Road to Redemption: Ten Policy Recommendations for Ohio's Charter School Sector
Latest report from Bellwether Education Partners.
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Accountability & Testing, Charter Schools
Charter School Performance in Ohio
Charter schools are quickly becoming a defining feature of Ohio’s public-education landscape, educating over 120,000 children statewide. The “theory of action” behind charters is fairly simple.
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Charter Schools
CREDO issues another reality check for Ohio charters
An important new look at charter school quality in Ohio.
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Accountability & Testing, Charter Schools
2014 Fordham Sponsorship Annual Report
The 2014 Fordham Sponsorship Annual Report is our opportunity to share the Fordham Foundation’s work as the sponsor of eleven schools serving 3,200 students, and our related policy work in Ohio and nationally. We are fortunate as an organization that our policy work benefits our sponsorship efforts; and, that our lessons from sponsorship inform our policy and advocacy strategies.
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Charter Schools
School-choice lessons emerge from two different educational crises
Good school choice practices emerge from a charter school crisis in Indianapolis.
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Accountability & Testing
Why legislators should slow-walk demands to limit Ohio’s state tests
Rushing to find a solution could swing the pendulum too far the other way
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Accountability & Testing
Next-generation teacher evaluations: Are they living up to expectations?
Early results say no. Chad Aldis
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Accountability & Testing
Science and social studies: To test or not to test
Data and policy options for stakeholders in Ohio
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Charter Schools
2014 Charter School Facility Finance Landscape
The ins and outs of financing charter school facilities.
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Accountability & Testing
Give PARCC a chance
Assessment is the drab side of schooling; but high-quality assessments are crucial.
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Charter Schools
Breakthroughs in Time, Talent, and Technology: Next Generation Learning Models in Public Charter Schools
Blended learning: electronic babysitting, latest fad or education breakthrough?
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Charter Schools
Exploring the connection between funding and quality in charter schools
Funding and quality in charter schools, views from 50,000 fee down to an individual school.
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Charter Schools
Innovation Ohio and OEA fail to help anyone 'know' anything
Attempt at "transparency" looks more like data spin.
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Standards, Accountability & Testing
A portrait of Ohio at the cusp of a new era
The Buckeye State is at the cusp of an era of new emphasis in K-12 education - the college-and-career-ready era. We look at Ohio's report cards in this new light.