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 #798: Which metro areas are accelerating student learning?
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
Education Gadfly Show #793: How D.C. increased teacher diversity and quality
Education Gadfly Show #791: Is this the end of gifted education in New York City?
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 State of State Standards for Civics and U.S. History in 2021
Jeremy A. Stern, Ph.D., Alison E. Brody, José A. Gregory, Stephen Griffith, Jonathan PulversIs America a racist country? Or the greatest nation on earth? Such a divisive question leaves little room for the complexity, richness, and nuance of our country’s past and present. But it’s the sort of question that often seems to get asked in today’s polarized environment. Small wonder, then, that the tattered condition of civics and U.S. history education constitutes a national crisis.