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Publications
Renewal and Optimism: Five Years as an Ohio Charter
Authorizer
November
2010
As a charter school sponsor
(authorizer), Fordham submits an accountability report to the Ohio
Department of Education at the end of November each year. The report
includes profiles of each Fordham-sponsored school, as well as
graphics comparing the achievement data of our schools, their home
districts, and charter schools across the state.
Read it here.
View
video profiles of each school here.
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Overall, Fordham students outperformed their
district peers but performed slightly below the charter
average in reading... students in Fordham-sponsored schools
performed better than students in their home districts and in
other charter schools in the state in math in all grades
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Education Imperatives for Ohio: K-12 Policy Priorities
for the Next Biennium
November 2010
In
this policy brief, Fordham gives its advice to Governor-elect Kasich
and the incoming leaders of the Ohio House and Senate as it relates
to the future of K-12 education policy in the Buckeye State.
Read it here.
Read
what others had to say about it:
Fordham Makes Education Policy Recommendations for Next
Biennium, Hannah Report; subscription
required.
Fordham Institute Offers Education Advice To New
Governor, Gongwer News Service; subscription
required.
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No challenge facing the Governor and the General
Assembly is more difficult or urgent than obtaining for Ohio
the education system that it deserves while also reducing the
overall cost of that system...
The bad news is that pulling this off will be incredibly
hard. The good news is that persevering with it might secure
the state's future. |
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2009-10 Ohio Report Card Analysis
August
2010
We partnered with Public Impact and analyzed
the 2009-10 academic performance data for charter and district
schools in Ohio's eight largest urban cities.
Read more here.
Read
what others had to say about it:
Fordham
Institute/Catalyst Ohio dig into report cards, Akron
Beacon Journal.
High-performing
charters dominate some markets, Catalyst Ohio.
Academic
Perdition, State of Ohio Education Blog.
Cincinnati,
Cleveland jump in state rankings, Catalyst
Ohio.
Fordham: Charter Performance Up, Down, Depending on
Big Eight District, Hannah Report; subscription
required.
Promising
numbers for Ohio, Canton Repository.
Changes
to 'value-added' measure may have lowered some districts'
scores, Catalyst Ohio.
State
Report Cards: Grading Schools Accurately? Canton
Repository.
For more analysis from Public Impact on Ohio's value-added model, see these two special editions of the Ohio Education Gadfly: "Adding value to value-added: Getting more out of the data we have" and "Tackling the Yo-Yo effect: Improving Ohio's value-added model."
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Having tracked these anemic results
now for seven years it is painful to realize how many children
have failed to receive the basic education they need for a
shot at success. And, worse, how little progress has been made
in creating the conditions for their younger brothers and
sisters to have a better shot at
success.
But high-performing schools for our neediest
children do not happen by accident. If we want more of them to
serve more kids successfully grown-ups have to make it
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Student Mobility in Montgomery County Public Schools:
Preliminary Findings
August 2010
Fordham commissioned economist Richard Stock of the Business
Research Group at the University of Dayton to analyze student-level
data from the Ohio Department of Education and track student
movement among schools and across Montgomery County school
districts from 2005-06 thru 2008-09.
Read more here.
Read
what others had to say about it:
Editorial:
Too much moving hurts children and the schools, Dayton
Daily News.
Student
turnover a problem in small, low-income districts, Dayton
Daily News.
Ohio's Education Reform Challenges: Lessons from the
Frontlines
July 2010
Chester E. Finn, Jr.,
Terry Ryan, & Mike Lafferty 
Published by Palgrave Macmillan, this book is our
commitment to describe and analyze Fordham's efforts as a charter
school authorizer in Ohio - including our successes and failures over
the last decade - so that others committed to school reform and
innovation can learn from our experience.
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Theorists don't necessarily fare
well in the world of politics, organizational interests, trial
and error, and human frailty. Experts' theories don't always
hold water. Their ivory tower experience doesn't necessarily
translate. Yet Fordham's engagement in Ohio - beginning in its
hometown of Dayton - has proved deeply instructive. |
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Read more here.
Read
what others had to say about it:
Foundation
for Change, Akron Beacon Journal.
Ohio needs to
correct 'mixed bag' of charter schools to guarantee excellence,
education stakeholders say, Gongwer News Service; subscription
required.
Charter
school advocates argue Ohio's system needs reform,
Catalyst Ohio.
Plain
speaking, Joanne Jacobs (blog).
Scott
Elliott: DuBois story shows how charters can go wrong,
Dayton Daily News.
Book
Review: The Virtue of Speaking Plain Truths, Rick Hess
Straight Up.
Editorial:
Fordham finds school reform isn't so easy, Dayton Daily
News.
Blog:
After Class -- Commentary, Catalyst Ohio.
Blog:
Skin in the Game, Eduwonk.
The virtues of charter school failure, Law, Religion, and Ethics Blog.
To read an exerpt from the book featured in Education
Next, see here.
Also check out our
presentation of the book's findings, delivered at the 2010
National Association of Public Charter Schools conference, and a video
interview by Education Next featuring authors Chester
E. Finn, Jr. and Terry Ryan.
Needles in a Haystack: Lessons from Ohio's
high-performing, high-need urban schools
May
2010
Quentin Suffren & Theodore J. Wallace
 This study profiles eight high-performing,
high-poverty schools located in Ohio's urban "Big 8" districts and
distills their successes so that policymakers and educators can
learn from them.
Read more here
and watch a video accompaniment to the
report.
See the individual profiles of the schools and watch
videos highlighting them:
Citizens'
Academy & video
College
Hill Fundamental Academy & video
Duxberry
Park Arts IMPACT Alternative Elementary
School & video
Horizon
Science Academy - Cleveland Middle School & video
King
Elementary School & video
Louisa
May Alcott Elementary School & video
McGregor
Elementary School & video
Valleyview
Elementary School & video
Read what others had to say about it:
SPARK Community Newsletter (Fall 2010), SPARK Ohio.
Opinion: Success
can be kid stuff when adults help, Canton
Repository. 
McGregor
Elementary gets high marks from think tank, Canton
Repository.
Editorial:
Effective lessons, Columbus Dispatch.
Blog: Proving Murray
Wrong in Ohio, School Choice Ohio blog.
Study
looks for formula to urban school success, Catalyst
Ohio.
Improving Urban
Education, featured on Cleveland public radio - WCPN.
Three
Cleveland schools lauded in study of Ohio urban districts,
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Education Notes: Report
Highlights Success of Handful of Urban Schools, Gongwer News
Service; subscription
required.
Report Pulls Lessons from High Performing Schools for
Urban Districts, Hannah Report; subscription
required.
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We hope that by uncovering the secrets of their exceptional performance we can suggest district and state policies and practices that will foster more such schools - without making it harder on the few we now have. |
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Opinions
Ohio needs a better way to grade teachers' impact
Op-ed, Terry Ryan, Dayton Daily News
Read it here.
Schools need to keep the best teachers
Op-ed, Terry Ryan,
Columbus Dispatch
Read it here.
Use
Ohio's value-added data to assess teacher
effectiveness
Op-ed, Terry Ryan, Cleveland Plain Dealer
Read it here.
Increasing class sizes could save state
money
Op-ed, Emmy L. Partin, Columbus Dispatch
Read it here.
Cyber-learning lessons from Georgia
Op-ed, Terry Ryan,
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Read it here.
Cleveland schools should take note of the national shift
toward smart-teacher personnel policies
Op-ed, Jamie Davies O'Leary & Emmy L. Partin,
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Read it here.
States factor in teachers'
performance
Op-ed, Jamie Davies O'Leary, Columbus Dispatch
Read it
here.
3 things Ohio needs to do to win money for
schools
Op-ed, Terry Ryan, Dayton Daily News
Read it here.
Charter schools are part of the system
Op-ed, Terry Ryan,
Columbus Dispatch
Read it here.
Analysis on voucher students is flawed
Letter
to the editor, Bianca Speranza, Columbus Dispatch
Read it here.
Teaching as Leadership
Article, Jamie Davies O'Leary, Education
Matters, American Association of Educators’ newsletter
Read
it here.
A Cautionary Tale: School Turnarounds and Charter
Leadership
Article, Terry Ryan, from “Hope, Fears, and Reality: A
Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2009,”
Center on
Reinventing Public Education
Read it here.
Fordham on the Radio
Talking charter schools on WOSU's All Sides with
Ann Fisher
Fordham VP Terry Ryan appeared on WOSU's
All
Sides with Ann Fisher to discuss the major policy issues facing
the Buckeye State's charter school program. Watch the show here
or stream audio here
(Terry joins in around the 40-minute mark).
"Schools that Shine": WCPN's Sound of
Ideas
Fordham's Needles in Haystack report
was the subject of this Sound of Ideas show
on Cleveland's NPR affililate, WCPN. Fordham's Ohio VP Terry Ryan
discussed top-performing urban schools in the Needles
study, as well as Race to the Top and education reform in Cleveland.
Policy
Analyses
Accountability
Standards
Common
Core academic standards: Moving beyond adoption in the Buckeye
State
Common
Core standards best most states’ standards, including Ohio’s
Seeing
all sides of the state’s new science standards
Common Core standards are a smart move for the Buckeye State
Value-added data
Tackling
the Yo-Yo effect: Improving Ohio's value-added model
Adding
value to value-added: Getting more out of the data we have
Use
value-added data to measure teacher effectiveness; but
humanely
Is
Ohio’s value-added system broken?
The
data is already holding everyone else accountable; why not
teachers?
Value-added
analysis is more art than science
Ohio’s
rating system
NCLB’s
teeth now sinking into high-performers
Changes
to Ohio’s academic rating system about to become law
Should
school ratings be available before start of new school
year?
Achievement
National Assessment for Educational Progress
Surprise,
Surprise? Not in Ohio’s NAEP reading results
Losing
LeBron isn’t Cleveland’s biggest problem
Other
achievement trends
Ohio
districts that have grown in poverty are holding steady on
achievement (true story)
College
outlook not bright for Ohio grads, says ACT report
Fordham-authorized
school ranks among very best urban public middle schools
Running
in place – Ohio’s reading and math scores stagnate
Also
running in place – Ohio’s e-school performance
The Chinese delegation to... Ohio?
Charter schools
Sponsorship & accountability
Closed
charter school returns $423,421 to state’s coffers
Fordham
plans to merge its sponsorship effort
Fordham's
charter school sponsorship contract 2.0
Buckeye
State holding charter school sponsors accountable
Quality must trump quantity when it comes to new charter
schools
Charter
sector needs to shear its black sheep
What
do you think--second half of the charter school bargain?
Fordham
is lots of things, but hypocrite is not one of them
Toward
excellence in charter school authorizing
Charter-district
cooperation
Ohio can learn from Gates' District-Charter Compact endeavor
Other
Ohio districts should take a cue from Cleveland
Quality
education should trump district damage control
Cincinnati:
We’ll sell you a school building, just don’t use it for a
school
Charters
in Ohio hope for equal-opportunity hospitality
The
wheels on the bus go… late, off-route, and terribly
mismanaged
District-charter
relationships are love/hate
Romeo
and Juliet have nothing on Ohio charter schools
Can
the school-choice genie go back in the bottle?
Top
non-profit charter models leave Ohio behind
ODE
sets charter accountability sights on district conversion
schools
Other
Cincinnati’s
magnet schools: Of campfires and enrollment apps
Bias,
faulty research cloud valid message in charter school report
Accolades,
grant dollars, and high-flying charters bypass the Buckeye
State
Skepticism
about Chicago’s charter unionization
Decade in review
Buckeye
Education in Review: 1999 to 2009
Federal education policy
Race to the Top
The
race is on and teachers are front and center
If
Ohio wins Race to the Top, what type of students will funds
reach?
RttT
reforms are good, but can we afford them over the
long-haul?
Extra!
Extra! Read all about it! (Now drop it.)
Ohio’s
Race to the Top application rewrite should improve “Great Teachers
& Leaders” section
Race
to the Top: How Ohio can go from a B- to an A
Vigilant
stakeholders must hold Ohio to its Race to the Top data promises
Race
to the Top isn’t the Oscars
Teachers:’
"new contract higher priority than Race to the Top"
More
Race to the Top drop-outs
Update:
Can Race to the Top decisions really be politics-free?
Can
Race to the Top decisions really be politics-free?
Dayton
Education Association makes (weak) case for rejecting RttT
Bankrupt
of logic: Dayton’s teachers union rejects Race to the Top, despite
$5 million deficit
Majority
of Ohio districts/charters rejected on first RttT try
Will
the timing of Race to the Top force compromises?
Promises,
promises
Ohio
unions are hand in glove with writers of Buckeye State’s Race to the
Top application – why this is a bad thing
Ed
Jobs
Ohio
districts smart to sock away Edujobs funding
Edujobs:
What’s hyperbole and what’s real?
Ohio
stands to gain more from RttT than Edujobs bill
School
Improvement Grants
Should
federal dollars be used to try to turn around failing
charters?
Ohio
schools winning School Improvement Grants select easiest
model
Worst
SIG-winning schools get $31 million. Similar charters would be
shuttered
Re:
Worst middle school in Ohio will turn itself around?
Worst
middle school in Ohio will turn itself around? (What’s the
definition of insanity again?)
Other
Every
bit counts: Ohio could gain tens of millions under revised Title I
formula
Pensions
Rep.
guvs: “the public is on our side” (in taking on public employee
& teacher unions)
Public catching on to pension system woes
Pessimistic
scientists: 1, State Teachers Retirement System: 0
State
pension fund execs peering through rose-colored glasses
School spending
Education facing demands at a time of leaner rations
Unraveling
constant school spending growth
"Reform
dollars” for education are dwarfed by status quo spending
Educating
children while living within our means
When
there is less of it, school funding should encourage
innovation
Search
for cost-savings is nothing new for local school districts
Timing
is right in Ohio for smart district consolidation
Did
you Know? Fiscal impact of raising student-teacher ratios in
Ohio
Just
how top-heavy are some of Ohio’s school districts?
Ohio’s
school funding “fix” hasn’t changed reality for some
communities
Lessons
on class-size reduction from Florida
Weak
links to student achievement in school funding model
Charter
schools bracing for funding cuts, still seeking parity
The
new normal in public education: doing more with less
Teachers
Did
you Know? Growth in Ohio’s teaching force amidst decline in
enrollment
Ohio
ranks high in number of teachers with master's degrees
McKinsey’s
“Closing the Talent Gap”
Dear
Ohio,
Reevaluating
the meaning of teacher commitment
Urban education
Dayton Urban League ceases operations after 63 years
Adults
biggest hurdle to reforms that Cleveland’s students
deserve
Becoming
charters could save Cleveland’s most promising schools
Cleveland
teachers union: if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em
Setbacks
in Cincinnati
A
Promising future for charter schools in Dayton
Policy changes necessary for Cleveland to see Baltimore-like success
The
worst news in Cleveland this week has nothing to do with
LeBron
Keeping
Cleveland from going the way of Detroit
Youngstown
needs to think outside the box
Bright
spots in urban education: 16 high-performing schools
“Educational
malpractice” taking place in Ohio’s longest-suffering schools
Virtual learning
Can
technology rescue school budgets?
Opportunities
abound with online learning
Vouchers
Ohio’s
voucher program reaches its cap – how much “evidence” will justify
its expansion?
Hundreds
of Ohio students on EdChoice Scholarship (voucher)
waitlist
85,000
students eligible for Ohio’s EdChoice Scholarship (voucher)
Events & Appearances
Stretching the School Dollar: Insights for the Buckeye
State
 District superintendents, treasurers,
lawmakers, policymakers, and education reformers gathered September
27 in Columbus to find solutions to tight education budgets at our
Stretching the School Dollar event, which was co-hosted by
the Ohio Grantmakers Forum and KidsOhio. (Read about the book,
Stretching the School Dollar, published by Harvard
Education Press, here).
Discussing smart cost savings were economist Marguerite Roza, Steven
Wilson of the NYC-based charter management organization Ascend
Learning, and Fordham’s own Eric Osberg and Terry Ryan.
You can view the panelists’ Power Point presentation online here.
And be sure to check out the full video of our event, “Stretching
the School Dollar: Insights for the Buckeye State,” online here.
Read what others had to say about it:
Panel
warns that education spending has to change, Catalyst
Ohio.
Forum on School Budget Challenges Casts Wary Eye
on Small Class Sizes, Hannah Report; subscription
required.
In November, Terry Ryan also presented on this topic -- "doing more with less" in education-- at Ohio Grantmakers Forum's 2010 annual conference in Cincinnati. View the PowerPoint presentation here.
2010 NACSA Leadership Conference
Terry Ryan and Kathryn Mullen Upton were
among the presenters at the National Association of Charter
School Authorizers' annual conference, held in October in Phoenix.
Terry joined representatives from Renaissance School Services and
Imagine Schools for a lively debate about what authorizers and
management organizations wish the other would do. He and James
Merriman of the New York City Charter School Center shared the
challenges and unintended consequences of charter laws, policies,
and authorizer actions in New York and Ohio. Kathryn co-led a
session in which participants made fast-paced, live-action decisions
about whether to close (fictitious) failing schools. Finally,
Terry joined colleagues from Ohio and Minnesota to share how they
are using grant dollars from NACSA’s Fund for
Authorizing Excellence to improve authorizing policies and
practices.
Also related to charter school quality, Terry Ryan led a professional development session jointly with Bill Sims, president of the Ohio Alliance of Public Charter Schools, on the topic of Ohio's automatic charter school closure at a NAPCS event in November. View the PowerPoint presentation here.
Think Tank + Sponsoring Charter Schools = Harder Than It
Looks
Co-authors of Ohio’s Education Reform Challenges
Chester E. Finn, Jr. and Terry Ryan participated in three book
events in August. The first event, hosted by the Ohio Alliance for
Public Charter Schools, took place at Horizon
Science Academy High School in Columbus and was attended mostly
by folks from the charter school world (and charter advocates
generally).
The second was held at the Columbus Metropolitan Club (CMC),
where they were joined by Jim Mahoney, executive director of
Battelle for Kids, and Brad Mitchell, director of Battelle-OSU STEM
Education & Economic Development Engagement to talk about
charter schools – and other reform issues ranging from STEM and
project-based learning to teacher compensation and Race to the Top –
with central Ohio’s business and civic community. Checker
encouraged community leaders to play a more direct role in pushing
education reform and removing the “stake” from current education
stakeholders’ hands, as a key lesson from the book is that even
reformers and innovators become defenders of vested interests over
time.
The third took place in Washington, DC, and convened national
charter experts. You can see footage of the event here.
Read what others had to say about the events:
Think
Tank: Sponsoring Charters Harder Than It Looks,
EdBeat (blog).
Ohio Needs To Correct 'Mixed Bag' Of
Charter Schools To Guarantee Excellence, Education Stakeholders
Say, Gongwer News Service; subscription
required.
Charter
school advocates argue Ohio's system needs reform,
Catalyst Ohio.
Testimony to the Ohio House Finance Subcommittee on
Primary and Secondary Education
In May, Terry Ryan and Kathryn Mullen Upton, Fordham’s director
of charter school sponsorship, delivered testimony
to the Ohio House Primary
and Secondary Education Subcommittee on ways to improve Ohio’s
charter school program.
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Testimony to State Board of Education on proposed new
authorizing entity
Also in May Terry Ryan and Kathryn Mullen Upton offered testimony
to the Ohio State Board of Education announcing Fordham’s plans to
merge and consolidate our charter school sponsorship operations with
that of the Educational Service Center of Central Ohio and jointly
launch a new statewide sponsorship entity. The new statewide
authorizer would hold its schools to a high standard of performance,
support the development of great new schools, and recruit outstanding
models to Ohio. The National Association of Charter School
Authorizers (NACSA) has provided grant support to aid this effort.
Read the press release here.
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Knowing the economic challenges facing public education, and charter schools specifically, it makes great sense for charter school sponsors to try and work together in coming months to develop cost efficiencies and economy of scale. |
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Just
for Fun
Posts revealing our proclivity for humor, fun, and the
occasional bite
Absurdly inappropriate behavior can't be only reason for teacher dismissal
Hell
has frozen over?
Did
you get a raise for not dying this summer?
Even
teachers unions have union trouble
Classroom
feng shui
Edujobs
to pay for teachers’ vacations? (Just kidding… but
almost.)
Latest
why-we-didn’t-sign-up-for-Race-to-the-Top-excuse? The
Bible
Low-performing
schools need more than self-help jargon
News
of the weird: Union fights for Viagra
Lessons
at the close of World Cup 2010
Creator
of "evidence-based model" of school funding can't answer tough
questions
Ohio
superintendent under fire for asking teachers to do lesson
plans
Ohio
wins a major award -- aka the "leg lamp" of education
News
of the weird: Paranoia and espionage in Ohio urban education
Fordham
in the News
A selection of Fordham quotes in national media, Ohio
newspapers, and the blogosphere
National news
School
Spending Hot Issue in Ohio Governor's Race, Education
Week.
Ohio Schools Opt Out of ‘Race to the Top’, School Reform News
Midwest Group Serves as Magnet for Innovation, Chronicle of Philanthropy.
Results
in National School-Reform Contest Spark Complaints,
Newsweek.
What
LeBron James' decision means for the Midwest, Huffington
Post.
Rewriting
of States' Standards on Social Studies Stirs Debate, Education Week.
States
Strive to Overhaul Teacher Tenure, Education
Week.
Ohio
newspapers
More than half of persistently low-performing public schools remain open after 5 years, study finds, Gongwer News
Service; subscription required.
Editorial: Good Example, Columbus Dispatch.
Closed charter school returns $423,421 to state, Dayton Daily News
Cleveland schools give all-clear sign, beckon charters Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Smart Schools Initiative, Gongwer News Service; subscription required.
Ohio
voters turn down tax hikes for schools, while state cuts loom,
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Miller
South, STEM school rated tops by Fordham Institute, West
Side Leader.
Out of control, Akron Beacon Journal.
Ohio
Supreme Court ruling could hurt charter schools, Dayton Daily News.
Voucher
students' test scores lag, Cincinnati Enquirer.
Schools
make more strides forward, Canton Repository.
ODE
wants competition for charter school contracts, Gongwer News
Service; subscription required.
After
Class – Commentary, Catalyst Ohio.
Billboard
campaign in SW Ohio targets teachers’ contracts, Akron
Beacon Journal.
Report
challenges charter schools on conflicts, accountability,
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Miller-South
and NIHF-STEM top urban middle schools in state, Akron
Beacon Journal.
Report
blasts Ohio charter school law, Catalyst Ohio.
Editorial:
Families deserve choice of charters, Dayton Daily
News.
News
from around the state and the nation, Catalyst
Ohio.
Five
Ohio charter schools to close, Miami Student.
Low
state scores may close more charter schools, Dayton Daily
News.
Professor
flunked class-size argument, Columbus Dispatch.
Top
districts slip in report card rankings, Cincinnati
Enquirer.
Ohio
gets no love in Race to the Top win, Catalyst
Ohio.
Race to the Top Results Expected Tuesday; Delisle
Previews Report Card Data, Hannah Report; subscription required.
State’s
school grades tardy, Columbus Dispatch.
Fordham
Foresees Data in Upcoming State Reports Cards Being More Reliable, Hannah Report; subscription required.
Foundation
for change: Ohio has its share of successful charter schools. The
challenge now is crafting ways to replicate the
achievement, Akron Beacon Journal.
Charter
School Study Author Says Ohio System Needs 'Reboot', Hannah
Report; subscription required.
Building
a new urban education model, Catalyst
Ohio.
Education notes: Report shows newly adopted English,
math standards superior to Ohio’s old version, Gongwer News
Service; subscription required.
Ohio,
Ky. among finalists for education funds, Cincinnati
Enquirer.
Study
knocks Ky., Ohio academic standards, Cincinnati
Enquirer.
More
TFA Debate, Dayton Daily News.
After
Class: Which federal pot holds more coin for Ohio? Catalyst
Ohio.
Editorial:
Fordham finds school reform isn’t so easy, Dayton Daily
News.
After
Class – Commentary, Catalyst Ohio.
Harris: Commence
Bipartisan Budget Panel ASAP; Ire over For-Profit Charter Sponsors
Misplaced, Hannah Report; subscription required.
The
most important book in the Cleveland school district is being
rewritten: The union contract, Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Editorial:
Effective lessons, Columbus Dispatch.
More
on charter schools, Akron Beacon Journal.
Report
details power over charter schools, Akron Beacon
Journal.
10
Northeast Ohio charter school boards sue White Hat Management
firm, Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Will
Dayton parents accept fewer school choices? Dayton Daily
News.
Good
Partners: Merger of two strong education centers should improve
charter schools, Columbus Dispatch.
Orphanage's
oversight of schools blasted, Cincinnati Enquirer.
News
from around the state and the nation, Catalyst
Ohio.
Fordham, ESCCO plan charter sponsor merge, Gongwer
News Service; subscription required.
Ohio’s
next request for Race to the Top dollars must be collaborative: Sen.
Gary Cates, Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Report
details power over charter schools, Akron Beacon
Journal.
Charter-school
sponsors plan merger Columbus Dispatch.
Public
good and private profit, Catalyst Ohio.
Ohio
urges school districts, teacher unions to sign up for Race to the
Top money, Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Cleveland
issues layoff notices to more than 500 teachers, Catalyst
Ohio.
Ohio's
colleges get better marks, Columbus Dispatch.
Tax
credit to fight brain drain stalled at Statehouse, Columbus
Business First.
Ohio
leads in adopting education standards, Columbus
Dispatch.
Real
change can get Ohio more Race to the Top cash, Dayton Daily
News.
Ohio
schools make finals in Race to the Top grant competition, Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Editorial:
State hasn’t learned how to judge progress, Dayton Daily
News.
State
splits the difference on teacher evaluations in Race to the Top
application, Catalyst Ohio.
Ohio educators await
details on proposed changes to No Child Left Behind, Zanesville
Times-Recorder.
In
education, Strickland happy to rest on laurels, Catalyst
Ohio.
Racing
to the Top, Toledo Blade.
Disputes
cloud teacher contract talks, Cincinnati
Enquirer.
More
students choosing charters, Columbus Dispatch.
In the blogosphere
…You Know It Ain’t Easy, Eduwonk.
Quick
Hits for 11.15.10, The Quick & The Ed (Education Sector).
Fordham
Institute: Unraveling Constant School Spending Growth,
SaveHilliardSchools.org blog.
Quality must
trump quantity when it comes to new charter schools, Charter
School Partners blog.
David
Harris and the Mind Trust – Article in the Chronical
of Philanthropy, Education Policy Student Association
blog.
Questionable
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Order
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