Jan Resseger

In Policy vs. Politics: Which Will Prevail in the Looming Ohio Charter School Reform Fight? researchers from the Ohio Charter School Accountability Project examine the connection between political contributions made by David Brennan and William Lager---Ohio's two largest charter … [Read more...] about Charter Titans’ Political Contributions Keep Ohio Charters Unregulated

Charter schools in Ohio are notorious because the state legislature, filled with money from supporters of some of the worst charters, has chosen hardly to regulate the charter school sector at all.  On Tuesday, the Stanford Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) … [Read more...] about Scathing Stanford CREDO Report Shows Ohio Traditional Public Schools Outperform Charters

The U.S. Department of Education has just updated the rules for states to be granted waivers from the most onerous requirements of the old, dated, and much criticized No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB).  Anne Hyslop recently reported that in its new rules, the Department now … [Read more...] about Accountability Should Reward Schools That Serve All Children Well Even If Achievement Gaps Remain

In one of the essays in Twenty-First Century Color Lines (2009), Andrew Grant-Thomas and john a. powell, of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at the Ohio State University, confront the idea that our greatest social challenges are the result of the attitudes … [Read more...] about Structural Racism: A Bleak Educational Future for Poor Children in America’s Metropolitan Areas

For many years Ohio has used a Performance Index to judge its school districts.  The Performance Index is a formula based primarily on standardized test scores.  Not too long ago at a meeting, when someone pointed out that the Performance Index seems to reflect family wealth and … [Read more...] about Ohio’s Plunderbund Examines Correlation of School District Ratings with Family Income