This summer it became evident that Ohio's EdChoice Scholarship (a statewide voucher program for students in low-performing schools) would reach its cap and students would be waitlisted.
This week's Ohio Education Gadfly takes on the issue of charter school quality in Ohio. With 40 new charters opening this year (twice that of previous years) and eight of them ?drop back in?
We’ve written about the stagnant academic achievement in reading and math of Ohio’s urban schools, both district and charter. Proficiency rates in the state’s major cities haven’t improved in the past five years, despite heaps of money and e
Ohio has committed to use part of its Race to the Top winnings to develop robust teacher evaluations, inform HR decisions, accelerate student academic growth reporting, and improve access to student data ??? in part using value-added data.
The superintendent of Ohio's largest school district is recommending that her school board sock away its $7.9 million in ???Edujobs??? funding in preparation for what is sure to be a tough budget next year.??
Each year the Fordham Institute's Ohio team analyzes the academic performance of schools in Ohio's Big 8 cities (the largest eight urban districts).
Let's start rooting for all groups of students to do better
I've always been your ardent defender. I buy peanut butter buckeye candy for people out of state and I have a t-shirt with a red outline of you that says ?Midwest is Best.? And I really believe it.
Yesterday, Terry wrote about the stagnant academic achievement in reading and math of Ohio's urban schools, both district and charter.??
Ohio's schools have been in a perpetual state of reform since the late 1990s.
Everyone knows that Ohio's Race to the Top victory came at the expense of New Jersey, which lost a crucial five points (and thus the competition) because of a ?clerical error.?
In this week's Ohio Education Gadfly, the Fordham Ohio team weighs in on several controversial national debates and brings a thoughtful perspective to each.
The vast majority of Ohio high school graduates are not ready for college, according to a new report from ACT.
Ohio has made adjustments to its value-added model ahead of the release of 2009-10 school performance data next Friday.
If you work in the K-12 education orbit ? or anywhere even near it ? you've heard this argument before: Increasing numbers of poor students in a school or a district over time will negatively impact overall performance.
Turns out Lehman Brothers and the rest of Wall Street weren’t the only ones to make risky and complex financial deals in the waning days of the credit bubble. Denver Public Schools entered into one such arrangement in April 2008 to close a $400 million gap in its pension obligations to teachers.
Fordham Ohio stayed busy in July with lots of special edition Gadflies, but the good ole regular edition is back in full swing t
This morning Checker and Terry had two conversations with Ohioans about Fordham's latest book, Ohio's Education Reform Challenges, a memoir of Fordham's experience as an authorizer of charter schools in Ohio, its history in fighting on behalf of families and kids in Dayton (and ac
This morning Checker and Terry had two conversations with Ohioans about Fordham's latest book, Ohio's Education Reform Challenges, a memoir of Fordham's experience as an authorizer of charter schools in Ohio, its history in fighting on behalf of families and kids in Dayton (and ac
Earlier this year the Brookings Institution and the Greater Ohio Policy Center garnered attention from both
Since its creation in 2005, Ohio’s EdChoice Scholarship Program – which grants $4,250 or $5,000 to students attending the state’s worst schools to attend the private school of their choice – has provided scholarships to all e
During the current fiscal crisis facing Ohio (and many other states) we've heard our share of cost-savings ideas for K-12 education.
You know it’s an election year when the Democratic Speaker of the House recalls her comrades from summer break to Washington for an emergency vote to bail out the nation’s schools.
Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus has some choice words for the civil rights crowd: “I know Kanye West said the George W.
Since its creation in 2005, Ohio's EdChoice Scholarship Program ? which grants $4,250 or $5,000 to students attending the state's worst schools to attend the private school of their choice ?
Earlier this year the Brookings Institution and the Greater Ohio Policy Center garnered attention from both gubernatorial
For many of you, July means vacation time. There's nothing better to do during those long flights, layovers, hours in the sand, or just ?stay-cations? in the backyard hammock than catch up on reading.
Paul Hill and Marguerite RozaCenter on Reinventing Public EducationJuly 2010
