Blog Spotlight: Thomas B. Fordham Institute

OK, so this really isn’t a Blog per se, more just a Web site for the Thomas B. Fordham Institute.

However, it still has a lot of interesting information, including a study on the state of Ohio, which has seen a mass exodus of young people in recent years. They also have analyzed Ohio’s Big 8 urban districts for the past several years.

Issues Fordham follows include Charters & Choice; Curriculum & Instruction; No Child Left Behind; Teacher Quality; Testing & Accountability; Dayton & Ohio Projects; Regulation; and Technology.

Fordham publishes every Thursday ”a weekly bulletin of news and analysis” called The Education Gadfly.

Fordham describes itself a “Washington, D.C.-based, non-profit think tank dedicated to advancing educational excellence in America’s K-12 schools.”

The institute was named after an Ohio industrialist who died in 1945. Its sister non-profit is the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, which sponsors charter schools in Ohio. Neither non-profit is affiliated with Fordham University.

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