#960: Why Secretary McMahon shouldn’t waive federal testing requirements, with Charles Barone

  On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Charles Baron

#959: Are GPAs the key to measuring school quality? with Jing Liu and Seth Gershenson

  On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Jing

#954: Should America prioritize its struggling students? with Tim Daly

  On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Tim Daly, CEO of EdNavigator, joins Mike and David to discuss w

#932: Yes, AP exams are getting easier, with Checker Finn

  On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Fordham’s Checker Finn joins Mike and David to discuss the changes in how the College

#931: No, school closures aren’t racist, with Vlad Kogan

On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Vlad Kogan, a professor at Ohio State University, joins Mike and David to discuss what ro

#930: What Vance and Harris mean for federal education policy, with Dale Chu

On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Dale Chu, a senior visiting fellow at the Fordham Institute, joins M

#928: Why the pandemic toddlers are struggling in school, with Kristen Huff

On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Kristen Huff, the vice president of assessment and research at Curric

#913: Advancing cross-partisan education policies, with Lorén Cox and Karen Nussle

On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Lorén Cox, the policy director for the Education and Society p

#902: Reforming New York’s Regents Exams, with Ray Domanico

  On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Ray Domanico, the director of education policy at the Manhattan institute, joins Mi

#900: The best and worst of ed reform in 2023, with Checker Finn

On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Checker Finn, Fordham’s president emeritus—and the original Education Gadfly—joi

#897: Addressing grade inflation, with Tim Daly

On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Tim Daly, the CEO of Ed Navigator, joins Mike to discuss the causes and harms of grade inflation—

#887: Bringing accountability back to American education, with Checker Finn

  On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Checker Finn, Fordham’s president emeritus, joins Mike to discuss w

#876: The chronic absenteeism crisis, and what to do about it, with Alia Wong

  On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Alia Wong of USA Today joins Mike and David to discuss what’s caus

#874: How to build a continuum of advanced learning opportunities, with Nick Colangelo

  On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Nick Colangelo of the University of Iowa joins Mike Petr

#871: The severity of pandemic learning loss, with Tom Kane

On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Tom Kane of Harvard University joins Mike Petrilli to discuss his findings from The Education Recovery Scorecard Project.

#866: The challenges of implementing through-course assessments, with Scott Marion

  On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Sc

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’

Education Gadfly Show #843: Halloween a week early with NAEP results in

  On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Checker Finn joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss the

Education Gadfly Show #801: Grumpy New Year with Checker Finn

Education Gadfly Show #795: Why we should test in K–2

Education Gadfly Show #792: NAEP scores were falling even before the pandemic. Was the Great Recession to blame?

The Education Gadfly Show #777: O-H-I-O: School reform victories in the Buckeye State

The Education Gadfly Show #772: What’s going to happen to the NAEP reading test?

The Education Gadfly Show #767: The fight to get kids back in class five days a week

The Education Gadfly Show #766: The U.S. Department of Education’s puzzling take on testing in 2021

The Education Gadfly Show: Does Biden have the right tack on school reopenings?

The Education Gadfly Show: Another reason we need to test students in 2021

The Education Gadfly Show: What the election means for education reform

The Education Gadfly Show: Two years after Janus, why are teachers unions stronger than ever?

On this week’s podcast, Colin Sharkey, executive director of the Association of American Educators, joins Mike Petril

The Education Gadfly Show: The politics of school reopenings

On this week’s podcast, Robin Lake, director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education, joins Mike Petrilli to discuss why politics seems to be