First thing???s (Students)First

Rhee's reform agenda

America in black and white

Robert Samuelson misses the point

Friending your online classmates

Virtual schools teach social skills, too

Quality Counts: Uncertain Forecast???Education Adjusts to a New Economic Reality

A poor ranking system, but a worthwhile report

The 2010 Brown Center Report on American Education: How Well are American Students Learning? Part III: NAEP and the Common Core Standards

Think NAEP is tough? Wait till we start testing the Common Core

School Funding Reality: A Bargain Not Kept

The fatal blow to MA's foundation budget: health-care costs

Briefly Noted: Downtown Jerry Brown

The tricks of Chinese mothers

Ohio's K-12 system slips from 5th to 11th, but that's beside the point

Yesterday, Education Week unveiled its 15th annual “Quality Counts” rating of state school systems, with Ohio earning a B- and ranking 11th nationally.

Slow and Uneven Progress in Narrowing Gaps

This report by the Center on Education Policy looks at student progress in the years since the implementation of the federal No Child Left Behind Act in 2001. 

Resetting Race to the Top: Why the Future of Competition Depends on Improving the Scoring Process

In this policy brief, TNTP lauds Race to the Top for spurring more statewide reform last year in education “than in the previous two decades,” attributing its success to the clear priorities and guidance for applicant states, and the transparency established by making applications available for public review.

The Promise of Cafeteria-Style Benefits for Districts and Teachers

The education community has long emphasized that “one size does not fit all” for students, but what about for teachers? In a new white paper, The Promise of Cafeteria-Style Benefits for Districts and Teachers, researchers from CRPE propose customizing teachers’ benefit plans as a cost-stabilizing measure for districts.

New teacher contract in the Queen City

After a year of “tedious” negotiations, strong recommendations from The New Teacher Project, and a considerable amount of hype (mostly from board

Ignoring our own advice

A recent report from our colleagues at the Fordham Institute’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., Are Bad Schools Immortal?, shows the folly of school turnaround efforts – only 1.4 percent of district schools and less than 1 percent of charters that have underg

On track to be a math powerhouse by??? 2070?

Doctors, lawyers, and … teachers? If Democrats for Education Reform gets its way, this list of occupations will no longer prompt the question of which one doesn’t belong.

How states can stretch the school dollar

Fifteen clear and specific ideas for the budget battles to come

The road paved with good intentions

Some thoughts on the Brown Center?s latest

Republicans rediscover education

At the state level, at least

Donkeys stand for children

The unions get some real competition

Connecting the Dots: School Spending and Student Progress Financial Allocation Study for Texas 2010 (FAST)

Stellar results with small budgets? Five stars for some Lone Star schools!

States??? Progress and Challenges in Implementing Common Core Standards

Still we?re left asking, ?now what??

Shut Out of the Military: Today???s High School Education Doesn???t Mean You???re Ready for Today???s Army

Another indication of our education system?s low expectations

Briefly Noted: The cast of Jersey Shore would be disappointed

A market emerges in South Africa while another re-emerges in Virginia

Ohio may create tax credit scholarship

Fordham has written about tax credit scholarships before ? do they increase competition and improve traditional public schools?

A year in review: recalling Fordham Ohio's (many) opinions

It's a Friday in December and so you're probably holiday shopping for your pets, eating candy canes, or figuring out what to wear for your bad holiday sweater party (wear the purple and green one!)? or possibly none of those things.

A year in review: Fordham Ohio's publications & policy analyses

Yesterday the Fordham Ohio team released its 2010 year in review, a synthesis of our work over the year and a document which we expect has already been printed out and is now hanging framed on your wall. Well, hopefully you saw it and read or skimmed a good bit of it.

Fordham Ohio's 2010 year in review

Thanks to Pandora and other free music-streaming websites, many Fordham staffers can be seen with at least one ear-bud channeling music during stressful report production, editing, etc. throughout the year. Now that the holidays are upon us, one popular jingle comes to mind: So this is Christmas

Publications

Opinions

Ohio needs a better way to grade teachers' impact Op-ed, Terry Ryan, Dayton Daily News

Fordham on the Radio

Talking charter schools on WOSU's All Sides with Ann Fisher

Policy Analyses

Accountability