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Fund The Child: Bringing Equity, Autonomy, and Portability to Ohio School Finance
March 12, 2008
Ohio can boast of praiseworthy gains over the past decade in making school funding more equitable across districts, but there is more work to be done. To mitigate the school-finance inequities that remain within districts and gear school funding toward the realities of student mobility, school choice and effective school-based ...
Too Good to Last: The True Story of Reading First
Sol Stern / March 5, 2008
Too Good to Last: The True Story of Reading First is an in-depth and alarming study of Reading First's betrayal. Under the leadership of White House domestic policy chief Margaret Spellings and with support from Congress, Reading First was to provide funding to primary-reading programs that were based on scientific ...
The Leadership Limbo
Frederick M. Hess , Coby Loup / February 14, 2008
In the era of No Child Left Behind, principals are increasingly held accountable for student performance. But are teacher labor agreements giving them enough flexibility to manage effectively? The Leadership Limbo: Teacher Labor Agreements in America's Fifty Largest School Districts, answers this question and others. ...
Thomas B. Fordham Foundation Sponsorship Accountability Report 2007
Sheila Byrd Carmichael , Carol Jago , Lucien Ellington , Paul Gross , Sheldon Stern / November 28, 2007
For information on Fordham's unique role as a charter school sponsor in Ohio, there's no better source than The Thomas B. Fordham Foundation Sponsorship Accountability Report 2006-07. The report offers a comprehensive account of Fordham's sponsorship policies and practices-as well as individual profiles of all Fordham-sponsored schools. Included in the ...
Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate: Do They Deserve Gold Star Status?
Deborah Adkins , Michael Dahlin , John Cronin / November 13, 2007
This report examines whether the reputation the Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate programs have for academic excellence is truly deserved. Our expert reviewers looked at the four AP and IB courses most similar to the core content areas in American high schools--English, history, math, and science--and found that, in general, ...
The Proficiency Illusion
Deborah Adkins , G. Gage Kingsbury , Michael Dahlin , John Cronin / October 4, 2007
NCLB allows each state to define proficiency as it sees fit and design its own tests. This study compares state tests to benchmarks laid out by the Northwest Evaluation Association to evaluate proficiency cut scores for assessments in twenty-six states. The findings suggest that the tests states use to measure ...
