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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 8.16.24
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 8.9.24
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 8.2.24
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 8.1.24 special edition
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Charter Schools, Governance
What could a Vice President Vance do to advance rural and small town education?
The remarkable ascent of Senator Vance into the national limelight could bode well for rural and small-town students, and we’d encourage him to increase the emphasis on their opportunities for success.
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 7.19.24
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Charter Schools
Comparing Waldorf-based pedagogy to other public school models
One reason why parents choose to enroll their children in schools other than their assigned district is the opportunity to access alternative educational models.
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Charter Schools
Ohio must stop chipping away at charter sponsor accountability
A rigorous sponsor evaluation system is critical to the success of charter schools in Ohio. Efforts to chip away at academic accountability must be resisted to ensure that only the highest-quality charters are available for students and families.
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 7.12.24
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 7.5.24
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 6.28.24
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Charter Schools
Media statement on House changes to Ohio sponsor evaluation system
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.
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Accountability & Testing
Should Ohio move to computer adaptive testing?
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.
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 6.21.24
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Accountability & Testing
To improve adult outcomes, do the math
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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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 6.14.24
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Charter Schools
Ohio charter schools after the pandemic: Are their students still learning more than they would in district schools?
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).
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 6.7.24
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Charter Schools
Digging in to the 2024 Charter School Ecosystem Rankings
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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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 5.31.24
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 5.24.24
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Accountability & Testing
“Teaching to the test” done right? Evidence from Austria.
“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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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 5.10.24
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Charter Schools
Information sources, data quality, and parental school choice
Los Angeles Unified School District’s Zones of Choice (ZOC) program began in 2010 as an effort to provide more high school options for a large swath of district eighth graders, combining historical catchment areas in lower-income and lower-performing neighborhoods into larger choice zones and eliminating the default feeder system from middle to high school.
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 5.3.24
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 4.26.24
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Accountability & Testing
American learning losses in the pandemic era: A global perspective
A new report from the Hoover Institution’s Education Success Init
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 4.19.24
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 4.12.24
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Charter Schools
Columbus City Schools should offer its underenrolled facilities to charter schools
A recent Columbus Dispatch article revealed stunningly low enrollment rates in several Columbus City Schools’ buildings.
