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Commentary
8.9.2011

Charting New Territory: Tapping Charter Schools to Turn Around the Nation's Dropout Factories

Lauren Karch

This report begins with a Cinderella story: high school (the infamous Locke in Los Angeles) meets charter management organization, is taken over, transforms from drop-out factory to a high-performing charter. How widespread should the involvement of charter management organizations be in turning around the nation’s lowest performing high schools?

Commentary
8.9.2011

Gamers rejoice!

How does your opinion compare to the average teacher’s? The fifth annual survey conducted by Harvard’s Program on Education and Governance and Education Next covers a wide variety of education policy issues and found a growing disparity between the views of teachers and the general public.

Commentary
8.9.2011

State budget impact: voucher and charter expansion

With Ohio’s biennial budget (HB 153) now in effect, it’s time to get into the details to figure out precisely how Ohio’s schools, educators, and students will be affected.  Consider two education policy changes included in HB 153 that are aimed at providing more education options for students in low-performing district schools: increasing eligibility for the EdChoice Scho

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8.9.2011

Keeping Ohio's future: Practical and promising solutions for Ohio's brain drain

Emmy L. Partin

Ohio lawmakers have introduced a bill aimed at stemming Ohio’s brain drain and keeping college graduates in the state after they earn their degrees. The legislation would allow Ohio college graduates, whether they are Ohio natives or not, who obtain a job in the Buckeye State to have their earned income exempted from

Commentary
8.9.2011

Importing Leaders for School Turnaround

An effective leader is vital to an effective school, especially when that school is a turnaround. Unfortunately, those equipped to lead rapid change in consistently low-performing schools are in short supply. In this report, Public Impact suggests that school leaders be imported from untapped pipelines of talent lying outside of the education sector.

Commentary
8.9.2011

Student Teaching in America

Bianca Speranza

Every year some 200,000 teacher candidates from 1,400 higher education institutions complete their student teaching requirement. In theory, student teaching is an opportunity for students to combine everything they’ve learned about the profession over the course of their training, and walk away prepared for the classroom.

Commentary
8.9.2011

Inside IMPACT: D.C.'s Model Teacher Evaluation System

Outsiders have envied, emulated, and damned D.C.’s acclaimed teacher-evaluation system, IMPACT. But what is the insiders’ perspective? This report from Ed Sector delivers the answer. Author Susan Headden, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, presents a thorough and balanced perspective on this revolutionary (but still emergent) system.

Commentary
8.5.2011

A billion dollars per student? Sure why not.

Bianca Speranza

By now I am sure that all of you have heard about the Save our Schools Rally that took place in Washington D.C. last weekend. The rally, organized by teachers, parents, and advocates called for an end to controversial education policies?and to ?put the public back in public schools.?

Commentary
8.4.2011

Will Ohio ever learn the charter quality lesson?

Terry Ryan

At the onset of the 2010-11 school year, 39 new charter schools opened their doors in the Buckeye State. These new schools bring the total number of charters in Ohio to just over 350.?? They collectively serve more than 100,000 students.

Commentary
8.4.2011

Meet the Ed Reform Idol contestants: Ohio

The following is a guest post from Peggy Lehner, Ohio State Senator for the 6th District, on why Ohio should be considered the reformiest state at our Ed Reform Idol event next week.

Commentary
7.28.2011

Harambee: A good way to start the day in Dayton

Terry Ryan

I had the good fortune to start my day at the Omega Baptist Church in Dayton with a group of young scholars and their 20-something mentors who were leading Harambee. Harambee means ???pull together??? in Swahili.