Skip to main content

Mobile Navigation

  • National
    • Policy
      • High Expectations
      • Quality Choices
      • Personalized Pathways
    • Research
    • Commentary
      • Gadfly Newsletter
      • Flypaper Blog
    • Events
    • Scholars Program
  • Ohio
    • Policy
      • Priorities
      • Media & Testimony
    • Research
    • Commentary
      • Ohio Education Gadfly Biweekly
      • Ohio Gadfly Daily
  • Charter Authorizing
    • Application
    • Sponsored Schools
    • Resources
  • About
    • Mission
    • Board
    • Staff
    • Career
Home
Home
Advancing Educational Excellence

Main Navigation

  • National
  • Ohio
  • Charter Authorizing
  • About

National Menu

  • Topics
    • Accountability & Testing
    • Advanced Education
    • Career & Technical Education
    • Charter Schools
    • Curriculum & Instruction
    • ESSA
    • Evidence-Based Learning
    • Facilities
    • Governance
    • Personalized Learning
    • Private School Choice
    • School Finance
    • Standards
    • Teachers & School Leaders
    • Think Again
  • Research
  • Commentary
    • Gadfly Newsletter
    • Flypaper Blog
    • Gadfly Podcast
  • Events
  • Scholars Program
Flypaper

The Gadfly Daily’s week in review

The Education Gadfly
2.4.2012

The release of The State of State Science Standards 2012 was Fordham’s biggest news this week—Checker and Kathleen discussed why it matters on Flypaper—but bloggers on the Gadfly Daily still commented on everything from the latest education studies to the future of reading instruction.

Terry Ryan and KnowledgeWorks’ Lisa Duty celebrated Digital Learning Day on Thursday by laying out what it will take to make the Buckeye State a digital learning leader in 2012 on the Ohio Gadfly Daily. On Flypaper, Checker reflected on Jack Jennings’s legacy at the Center on Education Policy and Mike wondered whether the knowledge and skills we test are really the ones needed for economic success.

On Choice Words, Adam Emerson previewed a forthcoming study that pokes a hole in the claim that school vouchers and tax credit scholarships skim only the best students from public schools. Chris Tessone explained on Stretching the School Dollar why MBAs won’t save district schools, while on Common Core Watch Kathleen Porter-Magee profiled the tension between reading strategies favored by the Common Core and those laid out in the best-selling book Teach Like a Champion.

Stay on top of all of Fordham’s new content and commentary by exploring all six of the Gadfly Daily blogs and subscribing to the combined RSS feed.

Tags: Common Core Kathleen Porter-magee Ohio
The Education Gadfly
Fordham Logo

© 2026 The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Privacy Policy
Usage Agreement

National

P.O. Box 110
Burke, VA 22009

202.223.5452

[email protected]

Ohio

P.O. Box 82291
Columbus, OH 43202

614.223.1580

[email protected]

Sponsorship

130 West Second Street, Suite 410
Dayton, Ohio 45402

937.227.3368

[email protected]