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A Big Apple for Educators: New York City???s Experiment with Schoolwide Performance Bonuses: Final Evaluation Report
Useful report, useless program
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Practical--and promising--solutions for Ohio's brain drain
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.
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Impact of Ohio's biennial budget on charter school start-up regions
Ohio's biennial budget put some significant education policy changes into effect this month, many of which we're still sifting through.
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Ohio's new threshold for voucher eligibility affects very few schools
With Ohio's biennial budget (HB 153) now in effect, we're still wrapping our brains around all of the implications of various provisions (recall that there were several hundred pages of education policy changes in the legislation).
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Ohio provision to re-test teachers at low-performing schools: What will the impact be?
As Jamie previously mentioned, with Ohio's budget (HB 153) now in effect Fordham is busy dissecting all the different provisions and what they mean for Ohio's students.
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NAEP Geography: Our schools??? secret success
Poor and minority students are learning more. Is it worth it?
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Roadmap for Next Generation State Accountability Systems
Standards and assessments, meet the third leg in your stool: accountability
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Save the Dates: Two September events on Assuring Highly Effective Teachers for All Ohio Students
After a several-month-long debate in the Buckeye State over teacher personnel policies, Ohio now stands at a crossroad. The biennial budget bill (HB 153) calls for the state to develop a model teacher evaluation framework by the end of this year and to adopt policies tying teacher evaluations to other key personnel decisions like dismissal, placement, tenure, and compensation.
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Publishers??? Criteria for the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts and Literacy
How textbook publishers can walk the CCSS-alignment walk
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Learning Time in America: Trends to Reform the American School Calendar: A Snapshot of Federal, State, and Local Action
Cut education costs, not education
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Making Teacher Incentives Work: Lessons from North Carolina's Teacher Bonus Program
School-level rewards find unlikely supporters
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Class Size: What Research Says and What it Means for State Policy
Findings that won?t please the advocates
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Unexpected but outstanding choice for Ohio's state schools chief
In a surprise move, Ohio's State Board of Education today tapped Interim Superintendent Stan Heffner as the state's new schools chief.?? Heffner never actually applied for the job when it opened up last spring and instead announced he'd be leaving Ohio in August for a job with ETS.??
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Ohio's state supe search: seeking top-notch talent on the cheap?
Yesterday, two days before the state board of education was slated to announce Ohio's new state superintendent, a second of the three finalists for the job removed himself from consideration. And the word on the street is that he exited the race over money, something the board could have prevented.
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Compelling more people to care about ed reform requires compelling narrative
Today in his piece, ?Understanding upper-middle-class parents,? Mike asked one question in particular that stood out to me: Can affluent parents (who are satisfied with their own kids' schools) be energized to fight on behalf of school reform for the poor? He goes on: