Commentary
Accountability & Testing
How to fix teacher evaluations
Ohio can learn an important lesson on teacher evaluation without descending into the same fight going on in New York
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Charter Schools, Accountability & Testing
Accountability in Private School Choice Programs
Every state is different, for better or worse
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Accountability & Testing, Charter Schools
Thomas B. Fordham Institute Testimony on Ohio House Bill 64
Chad's written testimony, delivered March 19, 2015.
Commentary
Accountability & Testing
Common Core: A look at how Kentucky made it work
Looking across the river in search of lessons for Ohio
Commentary
Charter Schools, Accountability & Testing
Cheers and Jeers for March 9, 2015
The best and the worst of recent education news
Commentary
Curriculum & Instruction, Accountability & Testing
When the stakes get high, the politics shouldn’t get soft
An argument against watering down testing and accountability
Commentary
Accountability & Testing
Research Bites - 2/2/15
Looking at the state of education in Ohio’s State of the State cities
Commentary
Standards, Accountability & Testing
Deconstructing Ohio’s testing report recommendations
"Test mania" debunked - now for the real work to improve testing in Ohio
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Charter Schools, Accountability & Testing
What Schools Do Families Want (and Why)?
Real parent preferences revealed.
Commentary
Standards, Accountability & Testing
Cheers and Jeers for January 26, 2015
The good and the bad in recent Ohio education news.
Commentary
Accountability & Testing
Fixing No Child Left Behind: Oral testimony of Martin West
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.
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Accountability & Testing
Timely Ohio report could change the ESEA testing debate
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.
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Report
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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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.
Commentary
Accountability & Testing
Why legislators should slow-walk demands to limit Ohio’s state tests
Rushing to find a solution could swing the pendulum too far the other way
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Accountability & Testing
Next-generation teacher evaluations: Are they living up to expectations?
Early results say no. Chad Aldis
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Accountability & Testing
Science and social studies: To test or not to test
Data and policy options for stakeholders in Ohio
Commentary
Accountability & Testing
Give PARCC a chance
Assessment is the drab side of schooling; but high-quality assessments are crucial.
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Standards, Accountability & Testing
A portrait of Ohio at the cusp of a new era
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.
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Accountability & Testing, Curriculum & Instruction
Getting classroom observations right
A new Education Next study has implications for Ohio's OTES teacher evaluation protocols.
Commentary
Accountability & Testing
Ohio’s school report cards in the press
Much analysis of Ohio's school report cards has already taken place in the mainstream media.
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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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Accountability & Testing
A first-look at student performance on Ohio state exams from 2013-14
A quick first look at the trove of new performance data from around Ohio.
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Standards, Accountability & Testing
Effort to repeal Common Core leaves Ohio school board member “baffled”
Worthington school board member’s testimony in support of Common Core
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Accountability & Testing
The Condition of College & Career Readiness
We take a look at a new report on college and career readiness as measured by ACT test scores.
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Accountability & Testing
Failing schools, or failing to consider multiple indicators?
Achievement ratings alone don’t tell the whole story of a school.
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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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Standards, Accountability & Testing
Ohio’s high-flying public schools, in reading
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.