It's National School Choice Week ? the first of its kind. And now, thanks to Gov. Kasich making it official, it's also Ohio School Choice Week. Close to 1,000 Ohioans have attended events across the state this week to celebrate.
If there?s good news to report, we can?t find it
In this case, it would have been good to point fingers
Since their inception in 1997, charter schools have been at the center of some of the most politically contentious debates in Ohio. The charter debate too often has been characterized by two competing camps.
This working paper from the Center on Reinventing Public Education – as part of its National Charter School Research Project – examines the impact of charter school authorizers on student achievement.
Add this credible and quantitative research to the growing list of reports finding seniority-based layoffs to be detrimental both to student learning and to the bottom line.
In the fall of 2009, the Gates Foundation commenced an epic task: the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project.
It’s been a while since Gadfly buzzed about legislative hearings or new bills, what with the past legislature renowned for its inactivity. But the new 129th General Assembly already has several education bills in the works, so expect Gadfly to b
Education reform is moving fast in Ohio, and a sudden membership shuffle on the State Board of Education has given Governor Kasich the opportunity to ramp up the pace further, putting his imprint on the state’s schools much faster than his predecessors.
Geoffrey Canada, president and CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ), spoke at the University of Dayton last week as part of the university’s diversity lecture series.
KidsOhio just released a study timed perfectly for National School Choice Week, which polled parents in Columbus’s Weinland Park (where Fordham-sponsored Colum
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A recently introduced piece of legislation (House Bill 21) would qualify Teach For America alums for a professional educator license in Ohio. (The bill contains many other important provisions regarding virtual charters, use of Ohio's value-added metrics in grades 4-8 for teacher evaluations, etc. ?
