Getting Out of the Way: Education Flexibility to Boost Innovation and Improvement in Ohio
Paolo DeMaria, Brinton S. Ramsey, Susan R. BodaryFor the past year, Ohio policymakers have been grappling with the issue of deregulating public schools. But what does deregulation mean--and how should policymakers go about doing it?
School Closures and Student Achievement: An Analysis of Ohio’s Urban District and Charter Schools
Deven Carlson, Stéphane LavertuSchool Closures and Student Achievement: An Analysis of Ohio’s Urban District and Charter Schools examines 198 school closures that occurred between 2006 and 2012 in the Ohio ‘Big Eight’ urban areas (Akron, Canton, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Toledo, and Youngstown). The research included 120 closed district-run schools and seventy-eight closed charter schools.
National Board Certification and Teacher Effectiveness: Evidence from Washington
Jessica PoinerAre National Board Certified Teachers more effective than their non-certified counterparts?
The promise of mastery grading (continued)
Jessica PoinerPros and cons of mastery-based education
Three problems with teacher licensing in Ohio
Jessica PoinerContent should be king
When the stakes get high, the politics shouldn’t get soft
Aaron ChurchillAn argument against watering down testing and accountability
Deconstructing Ohio’s testing report recommendations
Jessica Poiner"Test mania" debunked - now for the real work to improve testing in Ohio
Cheers and Jeers for January 26, 2015
Jeff MurrayThe good and the bad in recent Ohio education news.
Differentiated instruction vs. ability grouping: It’s time to toss out “one or the other” thinking
Jeff MurrayHow about a hybrid?
The Road to Redemption: Ten Policy Recommendations for Ohio's Charter School Sector
Juliet Squire, Kelly RobsonLatest report from Bellwether Education Partners.
Common Core in Ohio: don’t look back
Jessica PoinerThere is no room for Sisyphus in the fight to improve Ohio schools.
International Benchmarking: State and National Education Performance Standards
Aaron ChurchillThe "Massachusetts Miracle" was more than just higher standards implemented well.
A portrait of Ohio at the cusp of a new era
Aaron ChurchillThe 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.
Getting classroom observations right
Jessica PoinerA new Education Next study has implications for Ohio's OTES teacher evaluation protocols.
Effort to repeal Common Core leaves Ohio school board member “baffled”
Worthington school board member’s testimony in support of Common Core
The problems with House Bill 597
Jessica PoinerPart Two of our analysis of the problems with the latest legislative assault on Common Core in Ohio.
Pulling an Indiana: How House Bill 597 mimics the Common Core
Jessica PoinerThink we're getting something new from HB597? Think again.
Ten things Ohio Common Core opponents don’t want you to know
Jessica PoinerAs another legislative assault on the Common Core in Ohio begins, here's a few things you might want to know.
For higher performance, use informal channels of teacher feedback
Aaron ChurchillOhio’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.
Ohio’s high-flying public schools, in reading
Aaron ChurchillWe 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.
Spending More of the School Day in Math Class: Evidence From a Regression Discontinuity in Middle School
Laura RobisonWe take a look at the evidence for and against "double dosing" in middle school math.
Ohio's New Learning Standards: Helping, not hampering
This piece was originally published the United States Chamber of Commerce’s website on Wednesday, July 23, 2014. Six days later, two legislators proposed a new legislative assault on Ohio’s New Learning Standards, which include the Common Core State Standards in math and English language arts.
Is alternative accountability real accountability?
Aaron ChurchillDo Ohio's multiple accountability "systems" erode the very foundation of accountability?
Visual Environment, Attention Allocation, and Learning
Aaron ChurchillA brief look at a study on visual clutter in the learning environment.
Standardized Tests: Correlation to Future Successes? (Part I of II)
Laura RobisonFirst of a two-part analysis looking at early indicators to future success.
Academic Content, Student Learning, and the Persistence of Preschool Effects
Brandon L. Wright“Shoot for the Moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars”: this clichéd adage, often found on motivational posters, actually has something worthwhile to say. Sometimes where we set goals determines where we end up, even if the goal is seldom met.
Pluck and Tenacity: How five private schools in Ohio have adapted to vouchers
Ellen BelcherRoughly 30,000 kids in Ohio take advantage of a publicly funded voucher (or “scholarship”).
PISA and Occam’s Razor
Michael J. PetrilliOccam’s Razor is the well-known principle that “among competing hypotheses, the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions should be selected.” Keep that in mind as various pundits hypothesize about why the U.S.