Commentary
Market-oriented education reforms’ rhetoric trumps reality
Broader/Bolder: Anti-poverty or just anti-reform?
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Curriculum & Instruction
The Nation’s Report Card: Economics 2012
Shocker: U.S. teens still economically illiterate
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Review: Redefining the School District in Tennessee
Is it time for Ohio and other states to take bolder steps toward turning around our most troubled schools and districts?
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Charter Schools
Rebooting charters: Charter school board capacity essential to school success
Capacity is something that requires ongoing maintenance and at least an annual critique.
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Losing Ohio’s seed corn: Lift the ceiling for gifted kids
High-quality gifted education for the state’s ablest students should be an imperative for Ohio.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Ohio’s college remediation rate crisis—and what can be done
Almost half of Ohio’s college freshman at public colleges and universities take remedial (high-school level) coursework in either math or English.
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Optimism from educators, researchers on the Common Core
The Common Core standards are considered by many educators and researchers to be an improvement compared to how educating students has been done in recent times.
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Curriculum & Instruction
The State of Charter School Authorizing 2012
The National Association of Charter School Authorizers finds that the authorizers are performing well on the index but still suffer challenges in closing schools, hiring experts, and working with state laws.
Commentary
Accountability with Voucher Threats, Responses, and the Test-Taking Population: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Florida
A short review of a study that examined whether Florida schools, facing sanctions under the state’s A-F accountability system, behaved strategically by over-identifying students as special education or English language learning.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Fordham on the Common Core, ad nauseum and Dayton Early College Academy earns attention from national media
The Fordham Institute has been engaged in a wide range of conversations recently about the Common Core and received national media attention for one of its charter schools.
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Charter Schools
Rebooting charters: Charter school board capacity essential to school success
Have a high performing charter school? Chances are it’s got a savvy board whose membership consists of mission-aligned individuals with diverse professional expertise and experience that is leveraged to advance a strategic and defined vision, and achieve a specific set of goals.
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Charter Schools
Redefining the School District in Tennessee by Nelson Smith
Is it time for Ohio and other states to take bolder steps toward turning around our most troubled schools and districts?
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Ohio’s college remediation rate crisis—and what can be done
Ohio’s bright-eyed freshmen aren’t ready for college coursework.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Will the assessment consortia wither away?
The College Board and ACT have entered the ring
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Charter Schools
American Indian charter schools: Keep the charter, but fire the board
It may seem absurd that one of California’s worst-performing school districts can kill the state’s finest charter school network. But that is the reality facing the 650 mostly poor and minority, but very high-achieving students enrolled at the American Indian Model charter schools.
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The continuing inequities of facilities funding for charter schools in Ohio
Enable charters to access cost-savings, facilities funding through Ohio's HB 264 program
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Curriculum & Instruction
The emperor is mostly naked: Responding to Common Core critics
Our response to the torrent of anti-Common Core literature, comments, blogs, and letters aimed at Ohio lawmakers and state board of education members
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
Our evaluations aren’t shady
The National Education Association is suing Florida for its teacher-evaluation policy;
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Advanced Education
Expanding College Opportunities for High-Achieving, Low Income Students
Information is power
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Charter Schools
An object lesson in charter school creation
The Columbus Dispatch is reporting today that Gahanna-Jefferson Public Schools will be discontinuing their experiment with charter school creation at the end of this school year.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Connecting the school funding tunnels
Join the best of Governor Kasich’s School Funding Plan with that of the House--and Ohio’s schools can move forward through the mountain of ignorance
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction, Advanced Education
Failing the gifted—and everyone else
The Obama administration’s budget proposal was late to the par
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Tilting at Windmills: School Reform, San Diego, and America’s Race to Renew Public Education
The making and unmaking of reform, SoCal style
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Charter Schools
Principals’ perceptions of competition for students in Milwaukee schools
Principals feel the heat—but their response is lukewarm
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Charter Schools
A charter school leader responds to charter critic
John Dues, school director for Columbus Collegiate Academy, wrote a response to a charter-school critic's piece that recently appeared as a Letter to the Editor in The Columbus Dispatch.