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Grade Inflation for Education Majors and Low Standards for Teachers: When Everyone Makes the Grade
The proficiency illusion hits higher ed
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And we're off: Our annual analysis of Ohio report card data
Today the Ohio Department of Education releases troves of performance data about the state's public schools. Fordham once again provided quick-turnaround, city-by-city analyses of public school performance in the Buckeye state's eight major urban areas.
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Keep an eye out for analyses of achievement in Ohio districts, schools, and charters
Each year, the Fordham Ohio team does an analysis of urban school performance in August when statewide achievement data?are released. We've been doing this analysis for many years, reporting on the number of Ohio students in the Buckeye State's ?Big 8?
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Charter Schools
Head of Cleveland NAACP to turn around failing charter school
File this under pieces of news that confuse my emotions. Rev. Stanley Miller, executive director of the Cleveland NAACP, is leaving that post to take on an area charter school ? a very terrible one to be specific (Marcus Garvey Academy). I am equal parts inspired by this move (Rev. Miller is a 63-year old whose heart is undoubtedly in the right place) and cynical.
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Teacher Characteristics and Student Achievement: Evidence from Teach For America
They could be onto something here
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Mapping State Proficiency Standards onto the NAEP Scales: Variation and Change in State Standards for Reading and Mathematics, 2005-2009
State proficiency rates: Still misleading
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State Superintendent Heffner: Understanding practical Common Core implementation challenges
I had the good fortune to spend time last week with Stan Heffner, Ohio's new state superintendent of public instruction. I enjoyed the conversation mightily because it mostly focused on two things that don't usually get enough attention in education policy conversations ??? teaching and learning.
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How would Ohio fare in Bellwether's teacher effectiveness analysis?
Yesterday Bellwether Education Partners released a scorecard that evaluated teacher effectiveness legislation in five different states.