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Download full textThomas B. Fordham Foundation, 2006
This report is the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation's first ever comprehensive analysis of education reform and results in the 50 states. For each of them, this report examines: (1) student achievement, with a focus on poor and minority students; (2) achievement trends since the early 1990s for these same students; and (3) reform efforts centering on…
Descriptors: School Choice, Achievement Gains, Economically Disadvantaged, Academic Achievement
Thomas B. Fordham Foundation & Institute, 2006
Education funding today is a mess, and a solution is needed that addresses its biggest problems: most disadvantaged students do not receive the funding they need; red tape and overhead waste time and money; and new types of education options, like charter schools, are starved for dollars. Unfortunately, until now, so-called solutions have…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Equity (Finance), Public Schools, School Choice
Finn, Chester E., Jr.; Ryan, Terry – Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, 2003
Findings from this Fordham-sponsored survey--the fourth survey of Dayton, Ohio parent/community attitudes toward education since 1988--present a fascinating array of opinions about today's schools (and those who are responsible for them) and the changes that could be made tomorrow. Over 70 percent of Dayton-area parents support the idea of…
Descriptors: Traditional Schools, Charter Schools, School Restructuring, School Choice
Finn, Chester E., Jr.; Ryan, Terry – Thomas B Fordham Foundation and Institute, 2005
This report presents the testimony of the president and program director of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. Based in Washington, DC and in Dayton, the Institute is a nonprofit organization that supports research, publications, and action projects of national significance in elementary/secondary reform, as well as significant education reform…
Descriptors: Public Education, Educational Change, School Choice, Educational Quality
Ryan, Terry – Thomas B Fordham Foundation and Institute, 2004
The purpose of this paper is to provide the reader with a general introduction to: (1) the growth of the charter school movement in Ohio since 1998;(2) the reaction of some who oppose this expansion in school choice; and (3) legal and political challenges that need to be met to ensure the sustainability and educational success of the charter…
Descriptors: School Choice, Charter Schools, Politics of Education, Educational Quality
Doyle, Denis P.; Diepold, Brian; DeSchryver, David A. – Thomas B Fordham Foundation and Institute, 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? What we are grappling with here is the question of connoisseurship. Stock analysts, for example, watch carefully when corporate directors buy or sell the stock of companies on whose boards they serve. Similarly, we can…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Public Schools, Educational Change, Private Schools
