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Charter Schools
New EdChoice data highlights academic success
Voucher program data is starting to emerge in Ohio, and everyone is taking notice.
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Charter Schools
On the Rocketship: How Top Charter Schools are Pushing the Envelope
The Rocketship charter network, founded in San Jose in 2006, has had a growth trajectory worthy of its name: it already operates nine schools, and its goal is to educate 25,000 students by 2017.
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Charter Schools
Charter School Funding: Inequity Expands
We take a look at the School Choice Demonstration Project's latest examination of charter funding across the country.
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Charter Schools
Sector Switchers: Why Catholic Schools Convert to Charters and What Happens Next
Although they’ve long been a favorite of working-class parents in search of safe, structured, morally solid environments, inner-city Catholic schools have struggled with finances and enrollment numbers for decades.
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Charter Schools
Down to the wire for one charter school
Hot off the presses: sometimes even a signed and sealed deal can't secure a facility for charter school.
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Charter Schools
Groundhog Day: The only thing missing is Bill Murray
Repeated failures of charter schools around Ohio seem endless; some hope may be around the corner.
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Charter Schools
Executive action we can support
The State of the Union was unusually light on education, though President Obama did touch on early-childhood education, ed tech, college access, and (of course) Race to the Top. However, the real action came the next morning, when the U.S.
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Charter Schools
120,000 kids in Ohio deserve a better law
Ohio ranked 28th out of 43 states and the District of Columbia on NAPCS' most recent ranking of charter school laws in the U.S. Ohio's kids and parents deserve better and now is the time.
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Advanced Education, Charter Schools
Losing out on big potential
Earlier this week, the New York Times featured an editorial on gifted education, noting that even our best students were in the middle of the pack in the recent PISA results.
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Accountability & Testing, Charter Schools, Governance
Remodeled Report Cards, Remaining Challenges
Fordham's 2012-13 sponsorship annual report addresses our schools’ perspective regarding persistent challenges and how the schools address those challenges.
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Charter Schools
Remember whom open enrollment serves
Open enrollment options abound across Ohio - in cities, suburbs, and rural areas. It is often the school choice option of first resort. But is it bane or benefit for students?
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Charter Schools
Japan’s Robin Hood school-voucher program
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.
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Charter Schools
Parsing Performance - Analysis of Ohio’s new school report cards
This August, Ohio issued for the first time conventional A through F school grades along nine indicators of school performance.
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
Testimony to the Michigan House Education Subcommittee on Common Core Standards
Prepared for Delivery on August 28, 2013
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Charter Schools
What does it really take to “win” the school choice lottery?
Sometimes winning the school-choice lottery is the only thing you care about as a parent.
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Charter Schools
Who should determine voucher accountability
It should not be a sworn enemy of vouchers
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Charter Schools
Indianapolis, leading the dialogue on charter authorizing
City-County Council members in Indianapolis convened a panel of experts Thursday evening to discuss the impact of charter authorizers on school quality.
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Charter Schools
Burning Atlanta’s charters
This is why it was important for Georgia voters to create an independent authorizer for charter schools
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Charter Schools
When education policy changes with the times
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
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
Implementation, Implementation, Assessment, Assessment
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.
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Charter Schools
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.
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
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?
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
Cincinnati, the model public school district?
A glimpse of the latest Ohio education headlines
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Charter Schools
The effective simplicity of relinquishment
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
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Charter Schools
Empty seats in Cleveland’s highest-rated schools
Cleveland's top-rated schools, both district and charter schools, still have the capacity to serve more students this coming school year.
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
We can all have flying cars: Why yearning for the good old days is a waste of time when it comes to education
The collective “we” in education is currently in tatters.
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Charter Schools
How much information is too much information?
Following the Tony Bennett flap, the A-to-F school-grading systems tha
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Charter Schools
The Medium-Term Impacts of High-Achieving Charter Schools on Non-Test Score Outcomes
Promise Academy’s broader and bolder results
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
Common Ground: Judy Hennessey
Dr. Judy Hennessey, superintendent of Deca Prep, a K-6 elementary school, discusses Common Core.