What you need to know about the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation before you read anything by them...

Thomas Leavitt at Seeing the Forest does an excellent job of explaining why information from the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation might be a tad biased.

Update: Permalinks don't work. Scroll down to post titled: "Debunking another right-wing hatchet job on public education", September 16th, 2004.

And if you want to know more about what these guys are up to today, check out this press release from the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation: about their new venture into sponsoring charter schools in Dayton, Ohio.