Ohio House proposes changes in testing, vouchers, and teacher evaluation
Looking beyond the "big issues" in Ohio's budget bill
Looking beyond the "big issues" in Ohio's budget bill
Does middle school really stink?
Pros and cons of mastery-based education
Ohio can learn an important lesson on teacher evaluation without descending into the same fight going on in New York
Every state is different, for better or worse
Chad's written testimony, delivered March 19, 2015.
Looking across the river in search of lessons for Ohio
The best and the worst of recent education news
An argument against watering down testing and accountability
Looking at the state of education in Ohio’s State of the State cities
"Test mania" debunked - now for the real work to improve testing in Ohio
Real parent preferences revealed.
The good and the bad in recent Ohio education news.
Editor's note: This testimony was presented at a hearing of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions onFixing No Child Left Behind: Testing and Accountability on January, 21, 2015.
Though hardly the only issue to be debated during the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education act, annual testing has taken center stage in discussions so far.
How did Ohio fare in this year's report?
Rushing to find a solution could swing the pendulum too far the other way
Early results say no. Chad Aldis
Data and policy options for stakeholders in Ohio
Assessment is the drab side of schooling; but high-quality assessments are crucial.
The Buckeye State is at the cusp of an era of new emphasis in K-12 education - the college-and-career-ready era. We look at Ohio's report cards in this new light.
A new Education Next study has implications for Ohio's OTES teacher evaluation protocols.
Much analysis of Ohio's school report cards has already taken place in the mainstream media.
A quick first look at the trove of new performance data from around Ohio.
Worthington school board member’s testimony in support of Common Core
We take a look at a new report on college and career readiness as measured by ACT test scores.
Achievement ratings alone don’t tell the whole story of a school.
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.
We look for - and find - the public schools ranked in the top 10 percent on Ohio’s value-added measure for reading in each of the past four years.