This is a test with answers correctly marked. What are the intended or unintended consequences of high stakes testing as required by the federal laws, NCLB and ESSA, and the testing laws in most states? Punish teachers ● yes …
The framers of the 1851 Ohio Constitution, when mandating the state to secure a thorough and efficient system of common schools could have used the term “public” instead of “common.” Although the framers of the 1912 amendment (Article VI, §3) …
Americans are in love with numbers. The Common Core came with high stakes testing. The concept of the common core is as old as systems of education. Can we agree on what a person needs to know, master, understand to …
A major Ohio newspaper published a tendentious article about ProgressOhio, one of the many organizations that are dissatisfied with Franklin County’s discrepancy in prosecuting people involved in the Columbus Public Schools data-scrubbing scandal and not even investigating education officials in the Ohio Department of Education …
A recent story in the Cleveland Plain Dealer posed the question of whether the state of Ohio should penalize schools for students who opt-out or let them “game the system.” https://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2016/01/penalize_schools_for_test_opt-outs_or_let_them_game_the_system_bill_would_lift_penalties.html Marti Franks, a retired teacher and board member of Public Education …
Public education advocacy groups work hard to organize and motivate regular citizens to talk to legislators about the damage that the current corporate ed-reform agenda has caused, but it seems that many school boards don’t see the importance of speaking up …
Ohio taxpayers are mortified by the glut of recent charter school scandals reported in the news. One story revealed that no sector misspends tax dollars more than charter schools in Ohio. Others informed citizens of ethics charges, inappropriate spending practices, and even criminal …
In September, Arne Duncan and the USDOE awarded the Ohio Department of Education a $71 million grant to expand its scandal-ridden charter school program, but public outcry convinced the US Department of Education to think twice and add some stipulations before any money would be released. …
If you are interested in a presentation laced in political correctness or one that will curry political favor with the inside-the-I-270-Beltway crowd, you will be disappointed in this one. I have no interest in tip-toeing around a discussion of the …
Judging by the breakneck speed at which Ohio’s school takeover law, HB 70, passed last summer, it’s clear that the corporate education reform movement is alive and well in Ohio. https://www.ohio.com/news/break-news/ohio-lawmakers-scrap-elected-school-boards-and-union-contracts-usher-in-private-control-after-barring-opposition-testimony-1.603233 In an excerpt from her book, “Reign of Error,” Diane Ravitch reveals …
