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Alternative Certification Isn't Alternative
Chester E. Finn, Jr. , Diane Ravitch / September 18, 2007
At first glance, the explosive growth of 'alternative' teacher certification--which is supposed to allow able individuals to teach in public schools without first passing through a college of education--appears to be one of the great success stories of modern education reform. But, as this report reveals, alternative certification programs have ...
2006-07 Ohio Report Cards
Terry Ryan , Emmy L. Partin / August 15, 2007
Despite a decade of significant school reform efforts in Ohio, students in the state's largest cities still struggle mightily to meet basic academic standards and are nowhere close to achieving the goals set by the federal No Child Left Behind law, according to an analysis of the latest Ohio school ...
Beyond the Basics: Achieving a Liberal Education for All Children
Chester E. Finn, Jr. , Diane Ravitch / July 11, 2007
America's true competitive edge over the long haul is not its technical prowess but its creativity, its imagination, its inventiveness. And those attributes are best inculcated not by skill-drill or 'STEM' but through liberal arts and sciences, liberally defined. Thus argues this new Fordham volume, edited by Chester E. Finn, ...
Golden Peaks and Perilous Cliffs: Rethinking Ohio's Teacher Pension System
Michael Podgursky / June 7, 2007
Robert M. Costrell
Despite its long history and prodigious size, all is not well with Ohio's teacher pension system. In this Fordham Institute report, nationally renowned economists Robert Costrell and Mike Podgursky illuminate some of the serious challenges facing STRS. ...
Ohioans' Views on Education 2007
Steve Farkas / May 24, 2007
This survey covers such topics as school quality and funding, academic standards, school reforms, proposals to improve how the public schools are run, teacher quality, charter schools and school vouchers. It follows up a survey conducted in 2005 and many of the questions are repeated, allowing us to gauge whether ...
The Autonomy Gap
Steven Adamowski / April 11, 2007
Though most public school principals believe that effective leadership of their schools requires authority over personnel decisions (e.g., staff selection, deployment, dismissal), they report having little such authority in practice. Based on a series of interviews with a small sample of district and charter-school principals, the report shows that most ...
