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Charter Schools, Accountability & Testing
What Schools Do Families Want (and Why)?
Real parent preferences revealed.
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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.
Report
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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Charter Schools
2014 Charter School Facility Finance Landscape
The ins and outs of financing charter school facilities.
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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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Charter Schools
Calling Ohio’s urban education providers into the future
Andy Smarick came to Columbus to talk about options for urban education in the future...starting now.
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Accountability & Testing, Charter Schools
Poised for Progress: Analysis of Ohio's School Report Cards 2013-14
On September 12th, Ohio released school report-card ratings for the 2013-14 school year. This report compiles and analyzes the statewide data, with special attention given to the quality of public schools in the Ohio Big Eight urban areas: Akron, Canton, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Toledo, and Youngstown (both district and charter school sectors).
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Charter Schools
The saga of VLT Academy continues
Supporting parents and students must be uppermost in any discussion of charter school authorization reform in Ohio. So far, their concerns seem to be last in consideration.
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Charter Schools
Evaluation of the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program: Participation, Compliance and Test Scores in 2012-13
Do private schools taking "cherry pick" their voucher students?
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Charter Schools
The saga of - and the lessons from - VLT Academy
The closure of a charter school in Cincinnati shows that Ohio's accountability system can work, but needs some tweaks.
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Charter Schools, Standards, Accountability & Testing
For higher performance, use informal channels of teacher feedback
Ohio’s new teacher-evaluation system requires evaluators to conduct two, formal thirty-minute classroom observations. Yet these legally prescribed observations seem ripe for compliance and rote box-checking; in fact, they may not be quite the impetus for school-wide improvement that policymakers had hoped for.
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Charter Schools
The Productivity of Public Charter Schools
Short review of a new report from the University of Arkansas, with an Ohio perspective.
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Charter Schools
The Productivity of Public Charter Schools
This new report from the University of Arkansas compares the productivity of public charter schools and district schools, both in terms of cost effectiveness and return on investment (ROI).
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Charter Schools
Still Searching: Job Vacancies and STEM Skills
Will highly-touted (and heavily-funded) STEM skills translate into STEM jobs for graduates?
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Charter Schools
Open enrollment--quality choices or just business?
Parents make educational choices in the best interests of their children, but to many school districts involved in open enrollment, it's only about numbers on a spreadsheet.
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Charter Schools
Opportunity and Hope: Transforming Children's Lives through Scholarships
When it comes to educational options, there are sundry open doors available to the nation’s more affluent kids—and far fewer for their poorer peers to walk through.