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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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Curriculum & Instruction
Year 3 of Implementing the Common Core State Standards: An Overview of States’ Programs and Challenges
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.
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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, Curriculum & Instruction
Common Ground: Judy Hennessey
Dr. Judy Hennessey, superintendent of Deca Prep, a K-6 elementary school, discusses Common Core.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Short Review: High Quality Professional Development for Teachers
As states and schools get ready for Common Core implementation, they had better prepare for higher quality education for both students and teachers.
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
Keeping our standards up
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
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Curriculum & Instruction
Hijacking Ohio’s future: State legislators must reject House Bill 237
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.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Early College, Early Success: Early College High School Initiative Impact Study
The power of high expectations
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Curriculum & Instruction
Skewering a widely circulated Common Core myth
There are scads of misinformation being tossed about when it comes to the Common Core Academic Standards.
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Advanced Education
Informing Students about Their College Options: A Proposal for Broadening the Expanding College Opportunities Project
A better approach to “affirmative action”
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Curriculum & Instruction
How best to integrate content and practices in science
The NGSS gave undue prominence to scientific skills and practices, ultimately underemphasizing content knowledge
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
From local diplomas to zombie attacks
New York City’s graduation rate dipped very slightly in 2012—information that was
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Curriculum & Instruction
Disappointing science standards, costly teacher pensions, and other notes
How do Ohio’s science standards stack up, in comparison to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)?
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Curriculum & Instruction
We hate to say "I told you so"
According to the Times, ability grouping is back, after being unfairly stigmatized in th
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Curriculum & Instruction
Assessing the Educational Data Movement
Viewing education through the prism of Big Data
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Curriculum & Instruction, Advanced Education
Finding America’s Missing AP and IB Students
Education Trust discovers high achievers
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Curriculum & Instruction
Welcoming Teach For America another step forward for Cleveland Metropolitan School District
The CMSD school board will vote tomorrow night to approve the hiring of up to nine TFA members.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Muddying the Waters on Common Core
Peter Cunningham responds to an anti-Common Core article in the New York Times
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction, Advanced Education
Standing athwart the Internet, yelling Stop!
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed legislation last week that places a one-year moratorium on new virtual charter schools outside Chicago and directs a state commission to study the effects and costs of virtual charters.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Balancing Career and Technical Education With Academic Coursework: The Consequences for Mathematics Achievement in High School
Career-tech courses neither hurt nor help
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Curriculum & Instruction
Enduring Links From Childhood Mathematics and Reading Achievement to Adult Socioeconomic Status
Reading plus math equals rags to riches
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Curriculum & Instruction
Fordham on the airwaves and in print
The Common Core. Portfolio management. Superintendents’ views on education reform. If you’ve missed any of Fordham's recent research reports or events on these timely and relevant topics in Ohio education reform, read the notes below and click on the links!
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Curriculum & Instruction
Liked but little used: Ohio’s rural districts and blended learning
Blended learning: It’s the talk of the town and perceived favorably, but it hasn’t found widespread use…yet.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Top Ten Takeaways: Common Assessments (Part 1 of 2)
Takeaways from last week's interviews with USED, PARCC, and Smarter Balanced on the move to Common Core-aligned assessments