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Briefly Noted: Delivering the goods
The goods being a robust curriculum and federal-stimulus funding
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Eric Hanushek to Ohio lawmakers: Education policies must incentivize achievement
This morning, economist and education policy expert Eric Hanushek testified in a joint meeting of the Ohio House and Senate education committees. His testimony ?
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Standards don???t mean a thing without that curriculum-swing
The case for a voluntary national curriculum
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A Smarter Teacher Layoff System: How Quality-Based Layoffs Can Help Schools Keep Great Teachers
The New Teacher Project nails it again
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The MetLife Survey of the American Teacher: Preparing Students for College and Careers
Favoring both the Common Core and 21st century skills?
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Arts Education in America: What the Declines Mean for Arts Education
The newest racial gap: exposure to arts education
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The rebirth of the education governor
Welcome the largest crop of ed-reform governors in thirty years
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Charter Schools
Fordham-authorized Columbus Collegiate Academy wins highest honor for student achievement
Columbus 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.?
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Fordham's Jamie Davies O'Leary testifies in Ohio Senate in support of TFA
This 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.
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Ohio superintendents: Yearning to break free-but after you go first
Last 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:
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School Finance, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders
Yearning to Break Free
Statewide 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.
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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.
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The Nation's Report Card: Science 2009: Trial Urban District Assessment
The results in one word: dismal
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Briefly Noted: Double the salary, double the fun
Taking the magnifying glass to WI teachers? fringe benefits
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Memories of David Kearns, 1930-2011
Former colleagues share their remembrances of the former deputy secretary of education
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Collective bargaining in Ohio
Fordham's own Terry Ryan testified recently before the Ohio Senate Finance Committee on Ohio Senate Bill 5.
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Science scores for Cleveland predictably low but still inexcusable
Anyone who's followed more than a few releases of NAEP scores recognizes the familiar feeling of disenchantment that accompanies it. Scores are low across subgroups?
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Ohio districts don't have to reinvent the wheel
Over the weekend the Dayton Daily News ran an article talking about Senate Bill 5. With a majority of the state's and local news outlets completely consumed by this debate this should come as no surprise.
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TNTP on LIFO
???It should not be illegal for schools to try and keep great teachers during tough economic times.???
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Midwest unrest: The view from the frontline
The Midwest is in turmoil over proposed changes to state laws that deal with collective-bargaining rights and pensions for public-sector employees, including teachers and other school personnel (as well as police officers, state employees, and more).
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