This interview with the United States Department of Education is the third and final installment in our Common Core testing consortia series
The second installment of the testing-consortia series is a conversation with Smarter Balanced
The inaugural installment of By the Company It Keeps, an interview series with some of ed reform’s most important contributors
The Dayton Early College Academy (DECA) is Dayton’s highest performing high school (district or charter), but is being trashed by a Columbus organization.
With potential tactics still in play to sustain the voucher expansion, it is likely that this ruling will simply be a pothole on the road to voucher expansion in Louisiana
Low standards, low expectations
A tricky line of research gets worthy treatment
Our Gadfly readers won’t
About 8,000 children had already been promised vouchers for next year when the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled its method of funding unconstitutional
Few school systems have embraced a crisis of opportunity quite like the school system in Reynoldsburg, Ohio.
A coalition that included high performing charter schools from Cleveland, Columbus and Dayton testified in front of the Senate Finance Committee’s Education Subcommittee on May 7th.
A profile feature article about the Reynoldsburg City School District
As the charter movement enters its third decade, it is imperative that policymakers and legislators understand the perspective of those schools that have succeeded in providing their students with a quality education.
Despite the surge in charter enrollment, charters still largely direct money from instruction, classroom support, and administration to their facilities
At the least, MOOCs can stop the rising cost of PD—and, at best, could improve it
The enduring damage of fatherless families
This report is great data on a critically important field
It’s open season on Pearson, the corporation everyone loves to hate—but this time, though they have crossed a serious line, far too many state leaders and reformers are holding their fire
The last couple of weeks have witnessed unremitting and well-coordinated attacks on the Common Core academic standards
When boards are mere rubber stamps, questions about accountability, incentives, and conflicts of interest are sure to follow
The most significant governance innovation since charter schools?
The multinational textbook-publisher-testing conglomerate named Pearson has been a fixture in this week’s education news.
