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Boosting the Quality and Efficiency of Special Education
Nathan Levenson / September 5, 2012
This groundbreaking study uses the largest database of information on special education spending and staffing ever assembled to uncover significant variance in how districts staff for special education. The report concludes that if the high-spending districts studied reduce their staffing in this area to the national median the public could ...
Applying Systems Thinking to Improve Special Education in Ohio
Nathan Levenson / September 5, 2012
This paper uses systems thinking to provide common sense ideas for saving money while improving special education services to the more than 275,000 Ohio students with special needs. ...
How Americans Would Slim Down Public Education
Steve Farkas , Ann Duffett / August 2, 2012
Education budgets are tight and state and district leaders must make tough decisions about where to save. But is the public willing to accept cuts? If so, where? According to the results of this new survey, many Americans are open—selectively open—to dramatic changes in how school districts do business. ...
Commentary & Feedback on Draft I of the Next Generation Science Standards
Paul Gross , Lawrence S. Lerner , John Lynch , Martha Schwartz , Richard Schwartz , W. Stephen Wilson / June 25, 2012
In May, Achieve unveiled and solicited comments on the first draft of the Next Generation Science Standards, the product of months of work by a team of writers from twenty-six states. This document provides commentary, feedback, and constructive advice that Fordham hopes the NGSS authors will consider as they revise ...
Putting a Price Tag on the Common Core: How Much Will Smart Implementation Cost?
Patrick J. Murphy , Elliot Regenstein / May 30, 2012
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English language arts and mathematics represent a sea change in standards-based reform and their implementation is the movement’s next—and greatest—challenge. Yet, while most states have now set forth implementation plans, these tomes seldom address the crucial matter of cost. This report estimates the ...
Future Shock: Early Common Core implementation lessons from Ohio
May 18, 2012
Ellen Belcher
With the 2014-15 Common-Core transition looming, we wondered: How are Ohio’s educators preparing themselves for this big change? Who is doing this work and what can other schools and districts learn from the early adopters? What are lessons, hopes, and fears facing those on the frontlines who have to lead ...
