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.
As states and schools get ready for Common Core implementation, they had better prepare for higher quality education for both students and teachers.
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
More is more, and it doesn’t stop at math
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.
The power of high expectations
There are scads of misinformation being tossed about when it comes to the Common Core Academic Standards.
The NGSS gave undue prominence to scientific skills and practices, ultimately underemphasizing content knowledge
Those pesky facts, always getting in the way
New York City’s graduation rate dipped very slightly in 2012—information that was
How do Ohio’s science standards stack up, in comparison to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)?
According to the Times, ability grouping is back, after being unfairly stigmatized in th
Viewing education through the prism of Big Data
Education Trust discovers high achievers
The CMSD school board will vote tomorrow night to approve the hiring of up to nine TFA members.
Peter Cunningham responds to an anti-Common Core article in the New York Times
A response to Jay Greene
Two steps forward, two steps back
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.
Career-tech courses neither hurt nor help
Reading plus math equals rags to riches
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!
Blended learning: It’s the talk of the town and perceived favorably, but it hasn’t found widespread use…yet.
Takeaways from last week's interviews with USED, PARCC, and Smarter Balanced on the move to Common Core-aligned assessments
The following is Kathleen Porter-Magee's testimony to the Wisconsin State Legislature on the Common Core standards
This report is based on the responses to an online survey conducted in Spring 2013 with 344 school district superintendents in Ohio. The survey covered seven education policies, specifically: Common Core State Standards, teacher evaluations, the Third Grade Reading Guarantee, open enrollment, A-to-F ratings for schools and districts, individualized learning (blended learning and credit flexibility), and school choice (charter schools and vouchers). It also included several questions on general attitudes towards school reform in Ohio and two trend items. Download today to discover the key findings!
When a Michigan House committee approved a measure that would allow students to skip Algebra 2 if they instead take a tec
The second installment of the testing-consortia series is a conversation with Smarter Balanced