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Wonkathon 2026: What rules should govern the uses of digital technology in schools—and who should set them?
For 12 years now, we at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute have hosted an annual Wonkathon on our Flypaper blog to generate substantive conversation around key issues in education reform. If you’re keen to jump in—and we hope you are—please let us know and indicate when we can expect your draft. Submissions are due by Friday, October 30, 2026.
The Education Gadfly 9.29.2026
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Who gets attendance interventions is as important as what the intervention is
Mikia Manley 7.30.2024
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Let’s stop blaming kids for absenteeism and unleash entrepreneurship
Darien Contu 7.29.2024
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Sustainable, promising interventions to reduce chronic absenteeism
Charles Ogundimu 7.29.2024
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Improving school attendance in Rhode Island
Jeremy Chiappetta, Krystafer Redden, Tom Giordano 7.29.2024
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To fix chronic absenteeism, we must ask why kids don’t want to go to school
Leslie Colwell 7.26.2024
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Are AP exams getting easier?
Chester E. Finn, Jr. 7.26.2024
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Change our schooling paradigm to reduce chronic absenteeism
Hugh Osborn 7.26.2024
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Civics for today
David Davenport 7.26.2024
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How can policymakers and practitioners reduce chronic absenteeism? The answer is sports.
Sam Duell 7.25.2024
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Schools cannot radically reduce chronic absenteeism alone
Jeremy Singer, Sarah Winchell Lenhoff 7.25.2024
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How to implement a cellphone ban in schools
Amber M. Northern, Ph.D. 7.25.2024
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California schools are failing to teach kids how to read
Daniel Buck 7.25.2024
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