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For next-generation learning, we need next-generation funding
Dear funding structure, Stop crippling innovation. Sincerely, Paul
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Keeping Pace with K-12 Online Learning: An Annual Review of Policy and Practice
Expanding digital learning the most inefficient way possible: One district at a time
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Online and Blended Learning: A Survey of Policy and Practice from K-12 Schools Around the World
Has anyone got this figured out yet?
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Online K-12 Schooling in the U.S.: Uncertain Private Venture in Need of Public Regulation
Surprisingly sound recommendations from the anti-capatalists
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Teacher-to-be wishes SB 5 was still around
Fordham intern and future teacher Matt Kyle reflects on why SB 5 mattered.
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State Superintendent Heffner makes case for more demanding K-12 expectations
Ohio teachers and administrators work tirelessly to deliver an excellent education to the state?s 1.8 million students, said State Superintendent of Public Instruction Stan Heffner at the annual Ohio School Boards Association?s conference earlier this week. So why are fewer than one in three of Ohio?s fourth graders reading at a proficient level (according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress)? Worse, why are achievement scores unimpressive among not only the Buckeye State?s urban districts, but even among wealthier suburban districts, especially in contrast to students internationally?
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State Superintendent Heffner makes case for more demanding K-12 expectations
Ohio teachers and administrators work tirelessly to deliver an excellent education to the state?s 1.8 million students, said State Superintendent of Public Instruction Stan Heffner at the annual Ohio School Boards Association?s conference earlier this week. So why are fewer than one in three of Ohio?s fourth graders reading at a proficient level (according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress)? Worse, why are achievement scores unimpressive among not only the Buckeye State?s urban districts, but even among wealthier suburban districts, especially in contrast to students internationally?
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Ohio's Senate Bill 5: A union dissenter's perspective
Ever wonder what happens to teachers who don't want to join the union? In her emotional testimony to the Ohio House's Commerce and Labor Committee on Senate Bill 5 this morning, teacher Carol Katter of Wapakoneta provided an answer.
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Colorado initiative could serve as model for Ohio schools
The Falcon 49 School District near Colorado Springs is implementing an innovative structure to their administrative system, according to this article in Education Week.
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State Superintendent Heffner makes case for more demanding K-12 expectations
Ohio teachers and administrators work tirelessly to deliver an excellent education to the state’s 1.8 million students, said State Superintendent of Public Instruction Stan Heffner at the annual Ohio School Boards Association’s conference earlier this week. So why are fewer than one in three of Ohio’s fourth graders reading at a proficient level (
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You'd be crazy to see SB5's defeat as rejection of Ohio school reform
Ohio’s electorate soundly rejected Issue 2 (the referendum on Senate Bill 5) last Tuesday. As almost everyone knows, that statute made significant changes to collective bargaining for public employees in the Buckeye State.
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Voucher kids do better than peers
This letter to the editor appeared in the Columbus Dispatch on November 12.
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Ohio superintendents discuss efficiency, lament limits
Last week Ohio Education Matters (a subsidiary of the KnowledgeWorks Foundation) hosted a forum for Ohio superintendents and district
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Digital Learning Now: Nation's Digital Report Card
In 2010 the Foundation for Excellence in Education convened the Digital Learning Council, which brought together leaders from education, government, and business to develop a framework to integrate technology meaningfully into K-12 classrooms acros
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Charter-School Management Organizations: Diverse Strategies and Diverse Student Impacts
If CRPE’s recent meta-analysis of charter-school research was an amuse-bouche, this report (from Mathematica/CRPE) on the practices and impacts of charter-management organizations (CMOs) acts as the entrée—and perhaps also the dessert.
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Assessing the Compensation of Public-School Teachers
While researchers have long tried to answer questions about whether teachers are under or overpaid, this study from the Heritage Foundation and American Enterprise Institute attempts to evaluate the total compensation of public school teachers against other
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Questions and controversy surround Ohio's value-added scores
According to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau, federal programs similar to Head Start are keeping more than 2 million disadvantaged American children out of poverty.
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Hey, big spender
We are going to see increasing in-fighting among big government types as big-spending school districts compete for resources with the rest of the agenda supported by the public fisc. Schools are increasingly going to lose those battles, which they?re not used to. Today?s example comes from Montgomery County, Maryland, where I live.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Teacher Prep Falls Short
To improve student learning in Ohio, and in other states, we need to improve the quality of our teaching force.
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Ohio superintendents discuss efficiency, lament limits
Yesterday Ohio Education Matters (a subsidiary of the KnowledgeWorks Foundation) hosted a forum for Ohio superintendents and district
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You???d be crazy to see SB5???s defeat as rejection of Ohio school reform
A vote of support for first responders
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Charter-School Management Organizations: Diverse Strategies and Diverse Student Impacts
New study explains the ?what? and ?how? but not the ?who?
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High-Stakes Reform: The Politics of Educational Accountability
Centralization leads to politicization
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You'd be crazy to see SB5's defeat as a defeat for Ohio school reform
Ohio's electorate soundly rejected Issue 2 (the referendum on Senate Bill 5) on Tuesday. As almost everyone knows, that statute made significant changes to collective bargaining for public employees in the Buckeye State.