Diane Ravitch posted a guest blog by Stephen Dyer earlier this week entitled “The Good, Bad and Ugly in the Cleveland Plan.”
Catnip for the school-choice proponent
One-stop teacher-policy shop
A rising school-choice tide for charters and vouchers alike
The National PTA shakes up its stance on charter authorizing
Perhaps it's time to rethink what "discipline" means in schools
The state board's decision to delay report cards has widespread ramifications for Ohio
The policy can benefit kids, but only if the schools and state do things differently
Terry Ryan talks about Fordham's work in the Gem City and education issues facing Dayton and the state
Common Core’s aligned assessments will be more difficult for Ohio students
Cincinnati Public Schools is well into the nitty gritty of implementing the new Common Core academic standards in English language arts and mathematics
This Phi Delta Kappan (PDK)/Gallup survey provides some tantalizing and provocative results regard public education
Buckeye State high-school students slightly outperformed their national peers in all tested subjects
The Civil Rights Project at UCLA looks at the rates of suspension for K-12 public school students on the national, state, and district level
Report examines the impact of school vouchers on college enrollment rates of students who were entering grades one through five
This school year is shepherding in lots of changes in Buckeye state schools! Vacancies in Central Ohio have allowed districts to hire more entry-level teachers.
Can stricter compulsory school attendance (CSA) laws improve high school graduation rates?
What the latest Cato study gets right...and wrong
Should teacher unions be allowed to give money to their bosses—the legislators who write the laws that give them their privileges—and their salaries?
A new study shows that black students who won a school-voucher lottery in New York a generation ago were more likely to attend college than students who didn’t win.
Education or “Medicare as we know it". Pick one.
The nation’s oldest parochial school system starts fresh
Accountability we all might agree on
A case for Nanny States
What a difference five years makes: In 2007, 97 percent of eligible teachers earned tenure in New York City; this year,
