Dyer: Why Did Ohio Decline in National Rankings?
Stephen Dyer, education policy fellow at Innovation Ohio, noted a precipitous decline in the state’s ranking on Education Week’s annual “Quality Counts.” Ohio was rated...
The Astonishing Cost of Ohio’s Lowest Performing School
Ohio’s most expensive failing school is ECOT, the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow. It has theoqesthfaduation rate of any school in the state, yet is never...
Kristen Buras: The Truth About Néw Orleans
Kristen Buras recently published a book about the dissolution of public education in Néw Orleans and its replacement by privately managed charter schools, staffed largely...
Sarah Darer Littman: A Blistering Critique of Ethics in Connecticut
Journalist Sarah Darrr Littman read the full investigative report about the FUSE charter scandal and here presents some of the seamy details, the fraud, and...
Laura Chapman: Why I Don’t Believe “Quality Counts”
Laura Chapman read Stephen Dyer’s post about Ohio’s ranking on Education Week’s “Quality Counts” and called for skepticism: She writes: “The Quality Counts reports in...
James D. Kirylo: How to Improve Teacher Education
While there has been much talk about the needs of teacher education, the “fixes” now center on Arne Duncan’s misguided belief that teacher colleges should...
Connecticut: Why Are Democrats Acting Like Republicans?
Joseph Ricciotti, a retired educator, asks the question posed in the title: Why are Democrats in Connecticut acting like Republicans? He cites the advice...
What Will Obama’s Education Legacy Be?
Stephanie Simon of Politico has an interesting analysis of President Obama’s education legacy. While some credit him for his contribution to increasing early childhood education,...
Lloyd Lofthouse: How Will Charter Growth Affect Public Schools?
Lloyd Lofthouse notes the expansion of the charter sector in past decade-plus and wonders how this will affect public schools. We know from many state...
Peter Greene: Are All the Teachers of Poor Children Really Bad Teachers?
Peter Greene poses a question in this post. If poor children get low test scores, does that mean that all those who teach poor children...