Effort to repeal Common Core leaves Ohio school board member “baffled”
Worthington school board member’s testimony in support of Common Core
Worthington school board member’s testimony in support of Common Core
We take a look at a new report on college and career readiness as measured by ACT test scores.
Supporting parents and students must be uppermost in any discussion of charter school authorization reform in Ohio. So far, their concerns seem to be last in consideration.
The state of play in Ohio K-12 education, more Common Core, and back-to-school for charters too.
Spotlight on Youngstown, standards review panels, and what the heck is an ESC?
Achievement ratings alone don’t tell the whole story of a school.
Business leaders testify on Common Core,ODE takes another stand against bad charter authorizing, and more.
Week 2 of Common Core repeal hearings, wraparound services, "intestinal fortitude", and more
Part Two of our analysis of the problems with the latest legislative assault on Common Core in Ohio.
The sunshine dims a bit from yesterday, Common Core repeal should "die on the legislativ?e vine", and more.
Common Core, charter schools go to court, and some rays of sunshine.
The Cleveland Plan, the political nature of Common Core repeal, crappy copiers, and more
Summary of coverage of Ohio Common Core repeal hearings and other news.
Think we're getting something new from HB597? Think again.
Why yes there are Common Core repeal hearings in Ohio this week, why do you ask?
Three phrases whose use stands in the way of meaningful discussion on education reform.
Checking out the Ohio connection in Fordham's latest national report.
Do private schools taking "cherry pick" their voucher students?
The closure of a charter school in Cincinnati shows that Ohio's accountability system can work, but needs some tweaks.
As if the protracted will-they-close-or-won’t-they hasn’t been bad enough for the families of approximately 600 students at the now-closed VLT Academy in Cincinnati, now these poor families have to endure the opportunism of a new charter school looking
Looking back and looking forward as the first week of school begins in many districts across Ohio.
Eleven of Michigan’s forty charter school authorizers are facing suspension due to deficient oversight of their schools’ accountability, transparency, fiscal governance, and academic improvement.
Gadfly Bites returns from vacation, catches up with some old news, and looks forward to new stories to follow.
The number of non-teaching staff in the United States (those employed by school systems but not serving as classroom teachers) has grown by 130 percent since 1970. Non-teachers, more than three million strong, now comprise half of the public school workforce. Their salaries and benefits absorb one-quarter of current education expenditures.
As another legislative assault on the Common Core in Ohio begins, here's a few things you might want to know.
In 2001, a North Carolina court granted unitary status to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district, which effectively ended a thirty-year policy of race-conscious school assignment.
Common Core–aligned testing will start this spring, and the majority of students will take the new exams on computers. But are younger children ready for this change? This study from NCES—two studies really—waded into the topic, but ended up staying in the shallow end of the pool.
Many students across the nation continue to perform poorly in mathematics. In response to this chronic underachievement, schools have tried numerous interventions, including “double doses” of math class for students who lag behind academically.