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Education Olympics 2008: The Games in Review
Stafford Palmieri , Amber M. Winkler, Ph.D. / August 25, 2008
This report has a simple aim: to present results from international assessments so readers can judge for themselves how American students stack up globally. It shows how the U.S. has performed internationally in education in recent years, and it provides a glimpse of how education looks in several top-performing ...
Ohio Value-Added Primer
August 25, 2008
Beginning in August 2008, Ohio's academic accountability system includes a value-added component that measures student academic progress in addition to achievement. Fordham created this short primer on value-added to help business people, lawmakers, policymakers, and others understand this powerful but complex tool. ...
2007-08 Ohio Report Card Analysis
Emmy L. Partin , Terry Ryan / August 15, 2008
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute, in partnership with Public Impact, analyzed the 2007-08 academic performance data for charter and district schools in Ohio's eight largest urban cities. ...
Sweating the Small Stuff: Inner-City Schools and the New Paternalism
David Whitman / August 15, 2008
The most exciting innovation in education policy in the last decade is the emergence of highly effective schools in our nation's inner cities, schools where disadvantaged teens make big gains in academic achievement. In this book, David Whitman takes readers inside six of these secondary schools—many of them charter schools—and ...
High-Achieving Students in the Era of No Child Left Behind
Steve Farkas , Ann Duffett , Tom Loveless / June 18, 2008
This publication reports the results of the first two (of five) studies of a multifaceted research investigation of the state of high-achieving students in the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) era. Part I examines achievement trends for high-achieving students since the early 1990s; Part II reports on teachers' own views ...
Who Will Save America's Urban Catholic Schools?
Scott Hamilton / April 10, 2008
America's urban Catholic schools are in crisis. Over 1,300 of them have shut down since 1990, mostly in our cities. As a result, some 300,000 students have been displaced--double the number affected by Hurricanes Rita and Katrina. This report, which includes a comprehensive survey of the attitudes of U.S. Catholics ...
