Monday, December 22, 2014

Is All This Charter Reform New? Not Really.

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I'm not going to write much in this post. I just thought it would be helpful if I provided you a snippet from an Akron Beacon Journal e...
Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Charter Day in Columbus

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Today is one of those news days I loved as a reporter -- lots of news, and really important news at that. First off, Bellwether Education ...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

UPDATED Stanford CREDO Director: Free Market Doesn't Work in Education

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This post has been updated to include Dr. Raymond's complete comment on the effect of markets in education. The quote was taken from the...
Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Ohio CREDO study: Charters' Generally Negative Impact

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The quadrennial CREDO study from Stanford has become a sort of gold standard for charter-public school comparisons. They use sophisticated ...

How Common Core Can Work

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As I've said in these pages before, I've got a serious love-hate relationship with Common Core. I like the standards, and see them a...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Ohio Senate President Faber Lays Groundwork for Flat Education Funding Next Year

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Last week, Sen. Keith Faber, R-Celina, the Ohio Senate President, said that he wanted to deregulate education, especially for high-performin...
Wednesday, November 5, 2014

The Vote: Last Night's Real Loser

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Everyone around the Internet and blogosphere is doing the requisite naval gazing, election post mortum. But I have a different take. I wish ...