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Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Fordham's 2010-11 Sponsorship Accountability Report
Kathryn Mullen Upton , Terry Ryan / November 28, 2011
The Thomas B. Fordham Foundation is pleased to share its latest annual Sponsorship Accountability Report, Two Steps Forward, One Step Back. The sixth of its kind, the report reflects on Ohio’s charter school policy environment and the performance of Fordham sponsored charter schools – in terms of absolute achievement, growth, ...
Halting a Runaway Train: Reforming Teacher Pensions for the 21st Century
Mike Lafferty / October 20, 2011
When it comes to public-sector pensions, writes lead author Mike Lafferty in this report, "A major public-policy (and public-finance) problem has been defined and measured, debated and deliberated, but not yet solved. Except where it has been." As recounted in "Halting a Runaway Train: Reforming Teacher Pensions for the 21st ...
Review of the National Research Council's Framework for K-12 Science Education
Paul Gross / October 4, 2011
Representatives from twenty states are hard at work developing Next Generation Science Standards—and using as their starting point the National Research Council's recently released Framework for K-12 Science Education. This review of that framework, by Paul R. Gross, applauds its content but warns that it could wind up sending standards ...
Do High Flyers Maintain Their Altitude? Performance Trends of Top Students
Robert Theaker , Yun Xiang , Michael Dahlin , John Cronin , Sarah Durant / September 20, 2011
"Do High Flyers Maintain Their Altitude? Performance Trends of Top Students," is the first study to examine the performance of America's highest-achieving children over time at the individual-student level. Produced in partnership with the Northwest Evaluation Association, it finds that many high-achieving students struggle to maintain their elite performance over ...
Teaching about 9/11 in 2011: What Our Children Need to Know
Richard Rodriguez , Andrew J. Rotherham , William Damon , William Galston , Lamar Alexander , Victor Davis Hanson , Katherine Kersten , Lucien Ellington , Craig Kennedy , Walter Russell Mead / September 7, 2011
Any number of organizations are offering advice about what to teach schoolchildren about the events of September 11, 2001, yet (unlike that day's murderous pilots) most sorely miss the mark. Fordham's publication, "Teaching about 9/11 in 2011: What Our Children Need to Know," highlights the danger of slighting history and ...
The Common Core and the Future of Student Assessment in Ohio
Emmy L. Partin , Kathleen Porter-Magee , Jamie Davies O'Leary / August 29, 2011
Ohio adopted the Common Core standards in ELA and math in June 2010, but now stands at a crossroad in making sure statewide assessments are aligned to those standards. Ohio is a participating member in two federally funded assessment consortia—the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) and the Partnership for the ...
