The success of so many different models of schooling over the last couple of decades suggest that it is less pedagogy than governance methodology that is the key.
Here's hoping that collaboration doesn’t co-opt educational diversity.
Two competing perspectives on reading instruction.
A new study of the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship program should render a persistent critique of school vouchers and tax credit scholarships irrelevant.
Bob Sommers, Ohio Governor Kasich’s “education czar” for the past year officially stepped down from his position on January 31, and before leaving he sat down with Rick Hess for an interview.
With friends like these, the growing coalition of support for charter schools will have a harder time coalescing around a common purpose.
School choice, not business degrees, offers the best shot at improving the K-12 sector.
Small schools get the final word.
The AP reports that the U.S. Education Department scolded states that had applied for the first round of NCLB waivers for not ensuring to ED’s satisfaction that schools would be held accountable for student performance.
Peter catches up on a few of the most notable education stories from the past month (or so).
One could argue that 2011 was the year of “digital learning” in Ohio and across the nation. In September, the White House announced its “Digital Promise” campaign, while a number of states have been embracing initiatives and campaigns in this realm, aided and encouraged by national groups like the Digital Learning Council and the Foundation for Excellence in Education. Ohio’s biennial budget launched the Ohio Digital Learning Task Force and charged it with ensuring that the state’s “legislative environment is conducive to and supportive of the educators and digital innovators at the heart of this transformation.”
Here’s hoping the GE Foundation’s $18 million will provide CCSS authors an important tool for shaping implementation discussions.
A modest, and relatively unpopular, plan could go a long way towards improving Maryland's fiscal situation.
Parents, even those a step above poverty, are ready to exercise more control over their children's education.
Adam explains why charter school applications must be subjected to closer scrutiny.
Real reform must embrace choice—choice at the individual level.
As the recent ALEC report card on American K-12 education shows, it's been a brazen year for school reform.
The Common Core emphasis on "close reading" challenges teachers to focus reading on actually reading.
As you are likely well aware, we are in the midst of School Choice Week, not only here in Ohio but nationwide. Numerous events have been going on all throughout the Buckeye State to help commemorate.
The education sector remains an elusive prize for Apple, but the company is making a big move to change that.
Why digital learning demands thoughtful educational design.
And the winner is…Missouri?!
Act now, align later
Catching up on the week's news.
