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Curriculum & Instruction
The Nation’s Report Card: Economics 2012
Shocker: U.S. teens still economically illiterate
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Curriculum & Instruction
Ohio’s college remediation rate crisis—and what can be done
Almost half of Ohio’s college freshman at public colleges and universities take remedial (high-school level) coursework in either math or English.
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Curriculum & Instruction
The State of Charter School Authorizing 2012
The National Association of Charter School Authorizers finds that the authorizers are performing well on the index but still suffer challenges in closing schools, hiring experts, and working with state laws.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Fordham on the Common Core, ad nauseum and Dayton Early College Academy earns attention from national media
The Fordham Institute has been engaged in a wide range of conversations recently about the Common Core and received national media attention for one of its charter schools.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Will the assessment consortia wither away?
The College Board and ACT have entered the ring
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Curriculum & Instruction
The emperor is mostly naked: Responding to Common Core critics
Our response to the torrent of anti-Common Core literature, comments, blogs, and letters aimed at Ohio lawmakers and state board of education members
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
Our evaluations aren’t shady
The National Education Association is suing Florida for its teacher-evaluation policy;
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Curriculum & Instruction
Connecting the school funding tunnels
Join the best of Governor Kasich’s School Funding Plan with that of the House--and Ohio’s schools can move forward through the mountain of ignorance
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction, Advanced Education
Failing the gifted—and everyone else
The Obama administration’s budget proposal was late to the par
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Curriculum & Instruction
Margaret Thatcher, education reformer
Checker Finn's recent commentary from National Review Online that describes Margaret Thatcher and her impact on the education-reform movement
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Curriculum & Instruction
Fraudulence gets checked—but not without excuses
The dramatic test-cheating scandal in Atlanta—which has seen the indictment of thirty-five educators, including
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Curriculum & Instruction
Why conservatives should support the Common Core
Two education scholars from right-of-center think tanks set the record straight
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Curriculum & Instruction
Common ground
An introduction to our upcoming Common Core blog discussions with school leaders
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Curriculum & Instruction
A piece of the puzzle: Teach For America, Dayton and its schools
Enticing our top college graduates to teach in America’s classrooms is a serious challenge, bordering on an epidemic in some of our poorer communities and neighborhoods.
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Curriculum & Instruction
The Common Core, digital transformation, and the Kasich budget proposal
Starting in the 2014-15 school year, Ohio’s schools will fully implement the Common Core State Standards and the PARCC exams--online assessments aligned to the Common Core. As the Buckeye State draws nearer to lift off for these new academic standards and tests, school districts are ratcheting up their technological infrastructure and capacity.
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Curriculum & Instruction
The Common Core, digital transformation, and the Kasich budget proposal
As the Buckeye State draws nearer to lift off for Common Core standards and tests, school districts are ratcheting up their technological infrastructure and capacity.
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Curriculum & Instruction
The Common Core War (What is it good for?)
In the latest dust-up over the Common Core, the inclusion of some (
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Curriculum & Instruction
The 2013 Brown Center Report on American Education: How Well Are American Students Learning?
Better than we thought, actually
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Curriculum & Instruction
A school for scholars: Q & A with Chad Webb, Village Preparatory charter school
This Q&A with Chad Webb, the head of school for Village Preparatory School-Woodland Hill campus, is the fifth of our seven-part series on school leadership.
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Curriculum & Instruction
A National Perspective on States’ Progress in Common Core State Standards Implementation Planning
The proof is in the pudding
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Curriculum & Instruction
Opening up the black box: Common Core as a classroom-level reform
It is exactly because Common Core is pushing reformers to take classroom-level change more seriously that it has the potential to have such far-reaching impact
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Curriculum & Instruction
Trust but verify: The real lessons of Campbell’s Law
A deeper reading of Campbell's Law reveals a nuanced and constructive message on measuring progress
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Curriculum & Instruction
Moving Forward: A National Perspective on States’ Progress in Common Core Standards Implementation Planning
A short review of a study conducted by Education First and Editorial Projects in Education, Inc. that examines the Common Core and states' progress with implementation. How does Ohio fare?
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Curriculum & Instruction
Problem-solvers, optimists wanted: A Q&A with KIPP Journey’s Hannah Powell Tuney
This Q&A with Hannah Powell Tuney, the executive director of KIPP: Central Ohio, is the third of our seven-part series on school leadership.
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Curriculum & Instruction
The Common Core implementation gap
We’ve made the necessary oblations to Common Core, and now it’s time to get serious about the seriousness of implementation
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Curriculum & Instruction
Common Core v. the false promise of leveled literacy programs
What does the CCSS text-complexity guidance means for curriculum, instruction, and standards implementation?
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