#867: How Core Knowledge schools boost students’ reading comprehension, with Robert Pondiscio
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, American Enterprise Institute senior fellow
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, American Enterprise Institute senior fellow
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast,
Opponents of public charter schools claim that they drain resources from traditional public schools. This brief argues that this assertion misses lesser-known realities and ignores obvious truths.
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Kymyon
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Mike Petrilli and David Griffith talk with
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Kymyona Burk, Senior Policy Fellow at
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, Quentin Suffren, Senior Advisor of Innovation Policy for ExcelinEd,
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
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Dr.
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?
"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.
On this week’s podcast, Doug Tuthill, president of Step Up for Students, joins Mik
High-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.
Opponents of charters contend that they drain district coffers, while proponents argue that it is charters that are denied essential funding. Yet too often, the claims made by both sides of this debate have been based on assumptions rather than hard evidence.
Study after study has found that new teachers tend to be less effective than educators with more experience. But despite having more junior staff, charter networks (referred to as CMOs) often outperform their district peers. So what’s their secret? To find out, this study explores how teacher effectiveness varies and evolves across traditional and charter public schools, as well as within the sector’s CMOs and standalone schools.
On this week’s podcast, Gregg Vanourek joins Mike Petrilli to discuss Fordham’s new report that Gregg authored,
Last spring, the Covid-19 pandemic upended routines for over 56 million students and challenged more than 3.7 million teachers in over 130,000 schools nationwide to continue educating kids in an online format. This transition to “virtual learning” was understandably trying for all educators, schools, and districts, but some managed to do far better than others.