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The State of State English Standards 2005
Chester E. Finn, Jr. , Sandra Stotsky / January 5, 2005
Do states' current English/language arts and reading standards expect what they should? Are they demanding enough? Clear enough? Are states using them to guide not only the curriculum and assessment system for students but also their teacher-training programs? Sandra Stotsky, research scholar at Northeastern University and former senior associate commissioner ...
Fwd: Opportunities Lost: How New York City got derailed on the way to school reform
Sol Stern / December 3, 2004
How did New York City's experiment in school reform, once so promising, become such a mess? Author Sol Stern explains in this third edition of Fordham's new Fwd: series of short articles of interest to K-12 education reformers. ...
The Mad, Mad World of Textbook Adoption
Chester E. Finn, Jr. , Diane Ravitch / September 29, 2004
Statewide textbook adoption, the process by which 21 states dictate the textbooks that schools and districts can use, is fundamentally flawed. It distorts the market, entices extremist groups to hijack the curriculum, enriches the textbook cartel, and papers the land with mediocre instructional materials that cannot fulfill their important education ...
Fwd: How Are Dayton's Charter Schools Doing?
Terry Ryan / September 27, 2004
The second edition of Fwd: Arresting Insights in Education summarizes Ohio state report card data for Dayton's district and charter public schools. Despite some recent gains, the phrase academic emergency continues to characterize the majority of Dayton's public schools. Also, youngsters in Dayton's charter schools outperformed their district peers on ...
Fwd: Where Do Public School Teachers Send Their Kids to School?
Brian Diepold , Denis P. Doyle , David A. DeSchryver / September 7, 2004
Does it matter where public-school teachers send their own children to school? If so, how and why? What can we learn from them? ...
A Wide-Angle Look at the Charter School Movement in Ohio/Dayton, circa September 2004
Terry Ryan / September 1, 2004
Charter school opponents have been taking shots nationally at charter schools in recent days, but these sorts of attacks have been a common occurrence in Dayton, Ohio since charter schools first opened there in 1998. Herewith is a report from the field on how charter schools are faring in the ...
