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Charter Schools
Fordham in the news: Charter school law and Ohio's brain drain
Fordham contributes to news articles related to charter school accountability and retaining Ohio's graduates
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Charter Schools
Calling all Career Technical Providers - Ohio has a deal for you
Ohio has put the welcome mat out for charter schools that provide career technical education. Building on criteria from the federal Carl D. Perkins Act Ohio’s biennial budget (HB59) provides a significant increase in funding for charter schools that provide career technical courses.
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Charter Schools
A race to the bottom for Indiana’s worst schools
Of seven badly performing charter schools cut off by their authorizer, four have been reprieved
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Curriculum & Instruction
We hate to say "I told you so"
According to the Times, ability grouping is back, after being unfairly stigmatized in th
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The New State Achievement Gap: How Federal Waivers Could Make It Worse—Or Better
State NAEP gains are all over the map—but we still don’t know why
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Curriculum & Instruction
Assessing the Educational Data Movement
Viewing education through the prism of Big Data
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Curriculum & Instruction, Advanced Education
Finding America’s Missing AP and IB Students
Education Trust discovers high achievers
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Charter Schools
One Maryland charter highlights half-broken promise of autonomy
When it comes to charter sponsoring, Maryland is in the Hall of Shame
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Curriculum & Instruction
Welcoming Teach For America another step forward for Cleveland Metropolitan School District
The CMSD school board will vote tomorrow night to approve the hiring of up to nine TFA members.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Muddying the Waters on Common Core
Peter Cunningham responds to an anti-Common Core article in the New York Times
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Just ask the kids: Student surveys and teacher evaluations
Student surveys, if done well, are a surprisingly reliable source of information
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Dayton's slow march into economic irrelevancy
Dayton's income levels in comparison to other Ohio cities
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Charter Schools
Millions of Reagan-Starved Republicans Prick Up their Ears, and other tales
After a judge ruled last year that Los Angeles was in violation of the Stull Act—a forty-year-old state law signed by Governor Ronald Reagan requiring that
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Teacher Value-Added at the High-School Level: Different Models, Different Answers?
No easy choices here
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Another change in proposed ADM requirement for districts
While there are still a couple of steps to go before it is law (everybody sing along), Ohio’s next biennial budget was voted out of the Senate Finance committee yesterday and heads now to the full Senate with nearly 1000 pages of amendments.
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Charter Schools
Putting "community" into a community school: Q&A with Sciotoville's Rick Bowman
The intersection of school and community
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The SEA of the Future: Leveraging Performance Management to Support School Improvement
From bureaucracy to performance
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Teach for America week one: Heart and getting started
Read about the journey of Bianca Speranza, a 2013 Teach for America Corp member in Southwest Ohio.
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Ohio’s big cities are rapidly becoming national school reform leaders
How big cities in Ohio are working on the forefront of education reform.
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Charter Schools
What happens to charter school graduates?
A long way to go for charter high schools in graduating college-bound students
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Charter Schools
The moratorium as protective tariff
Illinois's new moratorium on virtual charter schools could have been worse