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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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What we’re reading: October 2, 2026
The Education Gadfly 10.2.2026
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Cheers and Jeers: October 2, 2026
The Education Gadfly 10.2.2026
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My son needed to leave his school, but I did not: A reflection on Nikole Hannah-Jones’s essay
Selim Tlili 10.2.2026
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A comprehensive list of the responses to the Nikole Hannah-Jones article
The Education Gadfly 10.1.2026
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The uneven ground of the no-zero grading policy landscape
Kennedy Sundberg 10.1.2026
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Do dual enrollment students still benefit despite failing college courses?
Jeff Murray 10.1.2026
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The lessons we’re not learning from Nikole Hannah-Jones
Robert Pondiscio 10.1.2026
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School discipline: A new rulebook (again) | Episode 1036 of The Education Gadfly Show
Kimberly Richey, Michael J. Petrilli, David Griffith, Ph.D., Amber M. Northern, Ph.D. 9.30.2026
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Wonkathon 2026: What rules should govern the uses of digital technology in schools—and who should set them?
The Education Gadfly 9.29.2026
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It’s not AI vs. human grading. It’s which design choices you make.
Sidhi Baweja 9.28.2026
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Bans aren’t the answer
Emily Freitag 9.28.2026
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I also sent my children to a nonselective, overwhelmingly minority public school, but it wasn’t a sacrifice
Eva Moskowitz 9.25.2026
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