America’s Best and Worst Metro Areas for School Quality
Thomas B. Fordham Institute"America’s Best and Worst Metro Areas for School Quality" is the first analysis to use nationally comparative data to evaluate the effectiveness of large and mid-size metro areas on school quality. Use our interactive data tool to see how your metro area stacks up.
Education Gadfly Show #796: What Glenn Youngkin’s election says about education politics today
On this week’s show, Andrew Rotherham, cofounder and partner at Bellwether Education partners, joins Mike Pet
Education Gadfly Show #791: Is this the end of gifted education in New York City?
The Education Gadfly Show #784: Remote learning worked well for some students. What schools can learn from that.
How to Sell SEL: Parents and the Politics of Social-Emotional Learning
Adam Tyner, Ph.D.This report examines parents’ opinions on SEL and pitfalls in communicating about it. It finds overwhelming support for the essence of SEL and its place in schools, but differences by political party and challenges in getting the terminology right.
The Education Gadfly Show #781: The House Democrats’ attack on charter schools
The Education Gadfly Show #777: O-H-I-O: School reform victories in the Buckeye State
The Education Gadfly Show #771: Same old, same old: How districts are spending federal relief dollars (so far)
The Education Gadfly Show #769: Should we break up behemoth school districts?
On this week’s podcast, Howard Husock, adjunct scholar in Domestic Policy Studies at AEI
The Education Gadfly Show #767: The fight to get kids back in class five days a week
The narrow path to do it right: Lessons from vaccine making for high-dosage tutoring
Mike Goldstein, Bowen PaulleHigh-dosage tutoring is receiving a lot of buzz as a promising tool to address learning loss in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. But unlike vaccines, successful tutoring programs are challenging to scale with fidelity. In this paper, long-time educators Michael Goldstein and Bowen Paulle explain how leaders can smartly scale promising tutoring programs that can boost student outcomes.
The Education Gadfly Show: The education issues facing state legislatures in 2021