Teacher Tenure Reform: Applying Lessons from the Civil Service and Higher Education
Daniela FairchildChicken soup for the teacher-tenure-reform soul
Teacher Incentives and Student Achievement: Evidence from New York City Public Schools
Chris TessoneA flawed report, a flawed program
American achievement in international perspective
Michael J. Petrilli, Janie ScullPISA by the (raw) numbers
A modest proposal for pension reform
Robert M. Costrell, Michael PodgurskyTie benefits to contributions
Fordham's Kathryn Mullen Upton testifies in support of charter school serving incarcerated youth
Jamie Davies O'LearyYesterday Fordham's Kathryn Mullen Upton, director of charter school sponsorship for the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, testified before the Ohio Senate Education Committee in support of SB 86.
Briefly Noted: Delivering the goods
The goods being a robust curriculum and federal-stimulus funding
Eric Hanushek to Ohio lawmakers: Education policies must incentivize achievement
Jamie Davies O'LearyThis morning, economist and education policy expert Eric Hanushek testified in a joint meeting of the Ohio House and Senate education committees. His testimony ?
Standards don???t mean a thing without that curriculum-swing
The case for a voluntary national curriculum
A Smarter Teacher Layoff System: How Quality-Based Layoffs Can Help Schools Keep Great Teachers
Chris IrvineThe New Teacher Project nails it again
The MetLife Survey of the American Teacher: Preparing Students for College and Careers
Daniela FairchildFavoring both the Common Core and 21st century skills?
Arts Education in America: What the Declines Mean for Arts Education
Gerilyn SlickerThe newest racial gap: exposure to arts education
The rebirth of the education governor
Chester E. Finn, Jr.Welcome the largest crop of ed-reform governors in thirty years
Fordham-authorized Columbus Collegiate Academy wins highest honor for student achievement
Jamie Davies O'LearyColumbus Collegiate Academy, a Fordham-authorized charter school in one of Columbus's poorest neighborhoods (Weinland Park), has just been awarded the Gold-Gain EPIC award by New Leaders for New Schools for dramatic gains in student achievement.?
Fordham's Jamie Davies O'Leary testifies in Ohio Senate in support of TFA
Bianca SperanzaThis morning the Ohio Senate Education Committee met to discuss SB 81- a bill that would allow Teach For America alumni to gain a resident teacher license and be equipped to teach in the State of Ohio. It also paves the way for the creation of an actual TFA-Ohio site.
Ohio superintendents: Yearning to break free-but after you go first
Terry RyanLast week we released Yearning to Break Free: Ohio Superintendents Speak Out ??? a statewide survey of Ohio superintendents and other education leaders.?? Among the key findings, superintendents told us they want state leaders to:
Yearning to Break Free
Steve Farkas, Ann DuffettStatewide survey of Ohio school district superintendents (and other education leaders) on the most critical issues facing K-12 education in the Buckeye State, including budgets, school effectiveness, and troublesome laws.
New Fordham report: Yearning to Break Free
Education in Ohio, as in most of the country, is coming to terms with a challenging ?new normal,? as Arne Duncan calls it?the prolonged period ahead when schools must produce better results with diminished resources.
The Nation's Report Card: Science 2009: Trial Urban District Assessment
Gerilyn SlickerThe results in one word: dismal
Customized Schooling: Beyond Whole-School Reform
Marena PerkinsRebuilding the education system from scratch
Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best
Janie ScullA playbook for charter expansion
Briefly Noted: Double the salary, double the fun
Taking the magnifying glass to WI teachers? fringe benefits
Memories of David Kearns, 1930-2011
Former colleagues share their remembrances of the former deputy secretary of education
Yearning to break free
Chester E. Finn, Jr., Emmy L. Partin, Terry RyanWhat superintendents say when the doors are closed