Cliffs ahead: Test scores and the Common Core
New York made education headlines last week, as its public schools reported substantially lower test scores than in previous years. The cause of the drop?
New York made education headlines last week, as its public schools reported substantially lower test scores than in previous years. The cause of the drop?
A glimpse of the latest Ohio education headlines
When the news came Thursday that the latest CREDO report showed outsize learning gains at New Orleans charter schools, I recalled the simplicity that Neerav Kingsland used to define his idea of “relinquishment” in public education
Cleveland's top-rated schools, both district and charter schools, still have the capacity to serve more students this coming school year.
The collective “we” in education is currently in tatters.
Following the Tony Bennett flap, the A-to-F school-grading systems tha
Promise Academy’s broader and bolder results
Dr. Judy Hennessey, superintendent of Deca Prep, a K-6 elementary school, discusses Common Core.
As “school choice” laws go, Missouri's is sloppy and coercive
Louisiana voters are used to making the hard decisions about public education that divide their lawmakers
The Washington Post profiled Josh Powell, a homeschooled young man, who—having never written an essay or learned that South Africa was a country—had to take several years of rem
More than 100,000 students in Ohio attended a public charter school during the past school year
Few reporters and analysts have documented the challenges charters face in entering the multi-trillion-dollar municipal bond market
This summer in Ohio has been oppressively hot and (for some reason) rainy. So check out these short reviews and reading recommendations from the Columbus team!
The perseverance of a Wisconsin mother brings the shortcomings of many school-choice programs into sharp focus
After twelve years with the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, Terry Ryan will be leaving the organization and the Buckeye state.
For a state in which charter school performance has outpaced student gains at traditional public schools, Tennessee should have a better charter law
With the exception of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship, no other school-voucher program has endured so many growing pains as the Louisiana voucher program
The provision allocates 1 mil or approximately $42.5 million over 5 years to pre-K programs.
The first entry of our Common Core series features a discussion with Chad Webb from Village Preparatory Academy::Woodland Hills Campus.
A new era dawned today for Columbus’ public education system.
A strong business acumen is needed for charter school board members.
It’s time to talk more about how multi-school networks are governed
Think of the children!
The global competitiveness of the U.S. education system continues to drive much of the school reform dialogue.
Ohio governor John Kasich's guest post celebrates the state’s newest school-choice initiative, the Income-Based Scholarship Program
A recent press release from the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools estimated that 920,007 students are currently on a waitlist to attend charter schools, a jump from the previous year’s 610,000.
Charter school authorizers in Ohio must review the school financials of all authorized schools monthly. But too often authorizers either don’t do this or they do not do it well.
A guest column on school choice by Governor Kasich, which highlights some achievements in the recently signed state budget.
Ohio is the newest state with an income-based scholarship, joining Indiana, Washington DC, and Wisconsin.