New research from the Consortium on Chicago School Research provides a relatively easy to-do list for district leaders who want to see more students progress toward graduation. Melissa Roderick and company use real-time data to identify and monitor pupil performance at one intervention point: the ninth-grade transition.
Today brought the eagerly awaited release of the 2013 NAEP results for 12th grade math and reading, which include scores for the nation as a whole as well as eleven pilot states.
In a new Education Next article, Sarah Carr examines the burgeoning online credit-recovery industry.
Non-election news is hard to come by today. Enjoy what there is, bizarre as it is.
Data scrubbing and building junking are just two of our topics for today's news roundup.
Start the week with some fresh education news and commentary from across Ohio.
This AEI policy brief investigates whether involved fathers impact their kids’ chances of success in college—and finds that they surely do.
There’s much interest in how schools can develop students’ non-cognitive skills, such as persistence and interpersonal skills, not just their academic prowess.
The Education Department announced that in 2012, public-high-school graduation rates reached an all-time high of 80 percent—and that if states can maintain the speed, we could reach 90 percent by 2020.
From Portsmouth to Lima and beyond today. Even folks in West Virginia are interested in what's going on in education in Ohio.
The latest roundup of news - with Fordham commentary - from around Ohio.
A look at the past year in teacher-policy reforms in Dayton.
Vocational education is big news and big business in Ohio - we attempt to unravel the layers to see just what students are getting for all the investment.
A bunch of downers in today's Ohio education news. I'm glad it's Friday.
InBloom, a nonprofit that warehoused and managed student data for many public-school districts, is tapping out after being
After a controversial change to a state law, what happens on the ground? This piece, from last month’s meeting of the Association for Education Finance and Policy, delves into one such case. In 2012, Ohio lawmakers approved the Ohio Teacher Evaluation System (OTES), which requires evaluations be based on student-academic-growth measures, formal observations, and classroom walkthroughs.
A bumper crop of education stories today from across Ohio and even the Wall Street Journal.
Back after a short spring break - education news and commentary from around Ohio
High-quality teachers are distributed across schools in patterns that resemble life in the desert, fleeing harsh terrain for soothing oases, fleeing poorer schools for more affluent.
The 2008 federal economic stimulus act invested $5 billion to support early-childhood programs, including $500 million for the Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge, which pushes states and localities to participate in the Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS).
For millions of Americans, yesterday was tax day. One of the major uses of those tax dollars is K-12 public education; in fact, Ohio spends approximately $20 billion per year on its public schools.
As opposition to the Common Core State Standards has gained momentum in parts of the land, it’s important to ask what happens if a state changes its mind and renounces those standards—which, as we’ve long said, states have every right to
