Ohio Gadfly Daily News 5-22-14
Gubernatorial candidates, open enrollment scrooges, and Common Core haters all feature in today's clips.
Gubernatorial candidates, open enrollment scrooges, and Common Core haters all feature in today's clips.
America’s educational shortcomings are not limited to disadvantaged kids. Far from it, as Eric Hanushek, Paul Peterson, and Ludger Woessmann explain in this recently released Education Next/PEPG study. Looking at the NAEP scores in every U.S. state and the PISA results of all thirty-four OECD countries, Hanushek et al.
Kudos to Andy Rotherham and Chad Aldeman for taking on, via a nifty new website and this recent Washington Post article, t
How often are kids reading, and which books are they choosing? Two recent reports took a crack at finding the answers.
Every year, the National Association of Charter School Authorizers draws on survey data from half of the nation’s charter-school authorizers to assess the quality of their practices, outlining a set of twelve essential practices and scoring authorizers based on their adherence to them. In this sixth edition, the results are mixed.
Everyone agrees that a good teacher makes all the difference in the world—but that’s where the agreement ends. This new report from Brookings adds to the body of research examining how to decide what makes a good teacher, specifically looking at teacher-evaluations systems in four moderate-sized urban districts in an effort to suggest ways to improve them.
After a rancorous mayoral race, the city of Newark has elected Ras Baraka—a decision surely to hold repercussions for the city’s ambitious education reform agenda.
Legislation and op-eds dominate our education news clips today.
School Choice Ohio has initiated legal action against Springfield and Cincinnati schools for denying them student directory information requested under Ohio public records law, while they were regularly providing that same information to other nonprofits.
Something unsavory is underway at the Department of Education and in the world of preschool zealotry. They seem to be merging—and in so doing, they risk the integrity of our education-data system.
We talk about TGRG fatigue and Lima beans, among other topics in the news.
Lots to cover today: opinions, revelations, history lessons, and accounting included.
We think outside the box on a thorny education issue often at the heart of the school choice debate.
We take a look at the School Choice Demonstration Project's latest examination of charter funding across the country.
Education reforms take many forms and can affect school districts differently. Recent news stories from Northeast Ohio show some positive momentum for several important reform efforts.
A recent EducationNext article pinpoints some weakness in online credit recovery programs which Ohio is experiencing first hand.
A recent EducationNext article pinpoints some weakness in online credit recovery programs which Ohio is experiencing first hand.
The latest education news and commentary from across Ohio.
Some excellent articles on the Third Grade Reading Guarantee in Northeast Ohio highlight today's clips.
Although they’ve long been a favorite of working-class parents in search of safe, structured, morally solid environments, inner-city Catholic schools have struggled with finances and enrollment numbers for decades.
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.
Slim but interesting pickings in education news across Ohio today.
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.