A recent piece in the American Journalism Review ripped mainstream education journalism, especially the televised variety, for fostering a false sense of crisis. It contains a shred of truth.
SIG-nificant changes needed
Schools everywhere: Steal these ideas!
It depends whom you ask
The EdChoice Scholarship Program (Ohio’s voucher program) was signed into law in 2005 under Governor Bob Taft. The program awards students vouchers based on the academic standing of their assigned district school.
StudentsFirstNY promises to make a splash in Empire State education politics.
Ed reformers should remain bullish about weighted student funding.
Guest blogger and Bronx special education teacher Mark Anderson writes that today's most important government challenge is increasing collaboration between educators.
Onto a world filled with marathon-running vegans
If we have to crawl then so does everyone else
Mary Poppins was onto something
Unfettered by karmic pronouncements, Rick Santorum has already begun designing lesson plans for
Resistance among teachers to changing their instruction poses a serious challenge to Common Core implementation.
Louisiana Superintendent of Education John White explains the place of poverty in discussions about education.
While the quick adoption of Common Core by 46 states was cheered by those who had been pushing for common standards for decades, the more jaded among us wondered: Do most states really understand what they signed up for?
Fewer state tax dollars for Ohio’s local governments and schools have public administrators talking, in the light of day no less, about mergers and shared services.
The NYSSBA is not wrong about the need to shake the barnacles off the bureaucracy.
We are pleased to be featuring two Dayton outstanding high schools in an upcoming report looking at high-performing, high-poverty highschools: Dayton Early College Academy (a charter school) and Stivers Schools for the Arts (a district-operated magnet school).
Fewer state tax dollars for Ohio’s local governments and schools have public administrators talking, in the light of day no less, about mergers and shared services.
The bold Jackson Plan is bringing together strange political bedfellows.
In a nutshell, it is fair to say that all of the governor’s major education proposals are aimed at making sure everyone – educators, parents, and the public – has a clearer and more accurate understanding of how well Ohio’s schools are doing in preparing students for college and the workforce.
The Harrison (CO) School District’s compensation plan, profiled in a recent Fordham report, represents another of yet a few compensation plans that totally redesign the actual teacher salary schedule.
In 2009, 135 Ohio high schools were identified as “dropout factories” – schools that fail to graduate more than 60 percent of their students on time.
