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 #797: Why debunked reading practices continue to spread
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
The Education Gadfly Show #785: Helping students fight disinformation online
The Education Gadfly Show #784: Remote learning worked well for some students. What schools can learn from that.
The Education Gadfly Show #783: One teacher’s call for choice and content-rich curricula
The Education Gadfly Show #782: Whatever you do, don’t call it social and emotional learning
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 #776: Can curriculum reform succeed where the rest of standards-based reform failed?
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 Acceleration Imperative: A Plan to Address Elementary Students’ Unfinished Learning in the Wake of Covid-19
In school districts and charter school networks nationwide, instructional leaders are developing plans to address the enormous challenges faced by their students, families, teachers, and staff over the past year. To help kick-start their planning process, we are proud to present The Acceleration Imperative, an open-source, evidence-based document created with input from dozens of current and former chief academic officers, scholars, and others with deep expertise and experience in high-performing, high-poverty elementary schools.
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