Truck stops, rural schools, and the Common Core
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.
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
The Center for Education Policy recently released a three-part series of reports reviewing the Common Core State standards implementation with focuses on the federal role, state progress and challenges, and teacher preparation, training, and assessments for the new standards.
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 states and schools get ready for Common Core implementation, they had better prepare for higher quality education for both students and teachers.
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 is more, and it doesn’t stop at math
Ohio’s legislators must reject House Bill 237, which seeks to void the State Board of Education’s decision to adopt the Common Core academic standards in English language arts and math.
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
The power of high expectations
Think of the children!