Think carefully before ditching WorkKeys
In early June, State Superintendent DeMaria shared with the state school board his recommendations for stream
In early June, State Superintendent DeMaria shared with the state school board his recommendations for stream
By Chester E. Finn, Jr.
By Jennifer O’Neal Schiess, Max Marchitello, and Juliet Squire
The genesis of vouchers in Ohio stretches back to 1995 and the Cleveland Scholarship and Tutoring program. In 2006, vouchers expanded statewide via the Educational Choice Scholarship (or EdChoice), which aims to assist students assigned to a low-rated public school.
This guidebook offers simple and easy-to-use vital statistics about Ohio’s schools and the students they serve. The facts and figures contained within this report offer an overview of who Ohio’s students are; where they go to school; how they perform on national and state exams; and how many pursue post-secondary education.
Throughout the recent Olympic Games, I reflected on the parallels between elite-level athletics and gifted education, and I thought how much we could learn about developing exceptional ability from what we saw during those two weeks.
Shortly after Ohio lawmakers enacted a new voucher program in 2005, the state budget office wrote in its fiscal analysis, “The Educational Choice Scholarships are not only intended to offer another route for student success, but also to impel the administration and teaching staff of a failing school building to improve upon their students’ academic performance.” Today, the
Are National Board Certified Teachers more effective than their non-certified counterparts?
Pros and cons of mastery-based education
Content should be king
An argument against watering down testing and accountability
How about a hybrid?
A new Education Next study has implications for Ohio's OTES teacher evaluation protocols.
We take a look at the evidence for and against "double dosing" in middle school math.
A brief look at a study on visual clutter in the learning environment.
“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.
Roughly 30,000 kids in Ohio take advantage of a publicly funded voucher (or “scholarship”).
Occam’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.
This valuable paper from the Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings sounds an important alarm: “The danger is that grade inflation, the often discussed phenomenon of students receiving higher and higher grades for mediocre academic achievement, has been joined by course inflation.
Prepared for Delivery on August 28, 2013
Despite the tireless marriage-wrecking efforts of Common Core opponents and their acolytes and funders, few states that initially pledged their troth to these rigorous new standards for English and math are in divorce mode.
New York made education headlines last week, as its public schools reported substantially lower test scores than in previous years. The cause of the drop?
A glimpse of the latest Ohio education headlines
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.
The collective “we” in education is currently in tatters.
Dr. Judy Hennessey, superintendent of Deca Prep, a K-6 elementary school, discusses Common Core.
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