I’ve been in Asia for other reasons (looking into the education of gifted students), but while on the ground in Tokyo, I learned of a fascinating policy dispute that, in the U.S., would be even more controversial.
This August, Ohio issued for the first time conventional A through F school grades along nine indicators of school performance.
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Sometimes winning the school-choice lottery is the only thing you care about as a parent.
It should not be a sworn enemy of vouchers
City-County Council members in Indianapolis convened a panel of experts Thursday evening to discuss the impact of charter authorizers on school quality.
This is why it was important for Georgia voters to create an independent authorizer for charter schools
A Chicago public school and public library will begin to share space on Thursday, breaking ground for a new “library-within-a-school” model that may be “copied and mimicked all across the city,” according to an
Despite the tireless marriage-wrecking efforts of Common Core opponents and their acolytes and funders, few states that initially pledged their troth to these rigorous new standards for English and math are in divorce mode.
To fully appreciate the academics of rural schools, let’s dig into three data points that were not components of the state’s rating system.
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.
