Education Gadfly Show #850: 2022’s most important education stories, with Marc Porter Magee
On this week’s special, year-end Education Gadfly Show podcast, Mike Petrilli looks back on 2022’
On this week’s special, year-end Education Gadfly Show podcast, Mike Petrilli looks back on 2022’
This study examines the role that high expectations should play in our nation’s academic recovery and how they operate in the traditional public, charter, and private school sectors.
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Checker Finn joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss the
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Jennifer Alexander, Executive Director of the Policy Innovators in Education (
For-profit charter schools” are non-profit organizations that contract out some services to a for-profit organization—meaning the schools themselves are not for-profit. This study explores whether such contracting affects school quality.
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Mike Petrilli and David Griffit
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Karega Rausch, Pr
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, David Houston, assistant professor at George
Our host Mike Petrilli is on vacation this week, so we're republishing our most popular podcast episode for three years r
How do we see whether achievement gaps between groups of students are widening or narrowing? How can we tell whether eighth graders in Missouri do better or worse in math than their peers in Michigan and Maine? We wouldn’t know these things or much else about K–12 achievement in America without a little-known but vital test, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a.k.a. “NAEP” or the “Nation’s Report Card.” Assessing the Nation’s Report Card: Challenges and Choices for NAEP, authored by veteran education participant/analyst Chester E. Finn, Jr., examines the history of NAEP, the issues and challenges that it faces today, and ways to strengthen and modernize it for the future.
The need to understand how schools can improve student attendance has never been greater. This study breaks new ground by examining high schools’ contributions to attendance—that is, their “attendance value-added.”
In the wake of the biggest education crisis in living memory, the need for transformational change is palpable and urgent. This report asks: Can a rising tide of charter schools carry students in America's largest metro areas—including those in traditional public schools?