Tuesday, August 23, 2016

NEW Cleveland Transformation Plan Report: Slow, Non-Uniform Progress, but Many Challenges Ahead

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Today, we at Innovation Ohio released a comprehensive look at the so-called "Cleveland Plan". The initial look we took at the ...
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Monday, August 22, 2016

Testing the Boundaries: Part II - What Can Outliers Teach Us?

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We've spent 12 years obsessing over two things: tests and achievement gaps. Yet it appeared that the efforts have been for naught, a...
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Last Week Tonight Takes on Ohio Charters. I Have Flashbacks.

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On John Oliver's Last Week Tonight  show last night , the host spent a good 20 minutes talking about charter schools, and, of course, si...
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Friday, August 19, 2016

Testing the Boundaries: A Series on Ohio (and the Nation's) Achievement Gap. Part I: After 12 years, Ohio's Performance Disparity Between Rich and Poor Districts has Grown Worse. Now What?

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One the worst traps we can fall in as analysts is to ignore the big picture. Lately, I've been guilty of this -- dealing with short term...
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Thursday, August 18, 2016

Donald Trump Acts Like the Last 30 years of Ed Reform Never Happened

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I've deliberately tried to stay out of the wild and wacky 2016 presidential race here. Primarily because education policy has been large...
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Tuesday, August 16, 2016

National Bureau of Economic Research: Charter Schools Decrease Future Students' Earnings

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In a devastating new  paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research, the authors find that charter schools overall have a negative  i...
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Monday, August 15, 2016

For First Time Ever, Fewer Ohio Kids Attend Charters than Previous Year. Yet Funding Still Grows. Here's How...

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For the last two years , the stories about Ohio's mostly failing charter school system have been numerous and compelling. In addition, t...
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