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Curriculum & Instruction
#955: Critical race theory: The student perspective with Brian Kisida
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Brian Kisida, Associate Professor at
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Curriculum & Instruction
#925: We need more curriculum oversight, with Robert Pondiscio
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Robert Pondiscio, a senior fellow at Fordham and the American Enterprise Institute
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Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction
#921: Rethinking reading comprehension instruction, with Daniel Buck
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Daniel Buck, Fordham’s policy and editorial associate, joins Mike and David
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Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction
#919: Why we should teach the history of human progress, with Marian Tupy
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Marian Tupy, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the founder and
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Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction
#909: Rethinking “equitable” grading, with Adam Tyner and Meredith Coffey
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Adam Tyner and Meredith Coffey, the national research director and a se
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Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction, Personalized Learning, Teachers & School Leaders
#907: How to do tutoring right, with Alan Safran
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Alan Safran, the CEO and co-founder of Saga Education, joins Mike and David to discuss best prac
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Accountability & Testing, Curriculum & Instruction
#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—
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Curriculum & Instruction, Teachers & School Leaders
#885: Virtual teachers are back, with Linda Jacobson
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Linda Jacobson, a senior writer at The 74, joins Mike to discuss why more students
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Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction, Private School Choice
#883: The student behavior crisis, with Daniel Buck
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Daniel Buck, Fordham’s editorial and policy associate, joins Mike and David to discuss the be
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Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction
#882: Defending Mississippi’s literacy gains, with Rachel Canter
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Rachel Canter, the executive director of Mississippi First, joins Mike to debu
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School Finance, Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction, Personalized Learning
#875: Charter schools that help students earn college credentials, with Kevin Teasley
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Kevin Teasley, of the Greater Educational Opportunities F
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Curriculum & Instruction
Education Gadfly Show #851: The case for teaching writing in the age of ChatGPT, with Checker Finn
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, David Griffith talks with
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Curriculum & Instruction
Education Gadfly Show #845: Why schools are wasting millions of dollars on ineffective online tutoring
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Bart Epstein, the president and CEO of
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Curriculum & Instruction
Education Gadfly Show #844: An ode to overly-optimistic teachers, with Seth Gershenson
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Mike Petrilli and David Griffith are joined by Seth Gers
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Curriculum & Instruction
Education Gadfly Show #837: Re-stating education: Not as modest as it sounds!
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show Podcast, Elliot Regenstein joins
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Curriculum & Instruction
Education Gadfly Show #836: How should schools handle any Covid waves this school year?
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show Podcast, John Bailey, nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute,
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Curriculum & Instruction
Education Gadfly Show #833: Are we witnessing the end of education reform?
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Checker Finn joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to dis
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Curriculum & Instruction
Education Gadfly Show #832: Removing barriers to the classroom in the face of a (possible) teacher shortage: Yes or no?
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show Podcast, Heather Peske, president of the National Council
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Curriculum & Instruction
Education Gadfly Show #830: When it comes to Covid learning loss, the bleeding has stopped
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show Podcast, Lindsay Dworkin and Karyn Lewis, senior vice preside
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Accountability & Testing, ESSA, Curriculum & Instruction
Education Gadfly Show #801: Grumpy New Year with Checker Finn
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Curriculum & Instruction
Education Gadfly Show #797: Why debunked reading practices continue to spread
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Curriculum & Instruction
The Education Gadfly Show #785: Helping students fight disinformation online
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Curriculum & Instruction, Personalized Learning
The Education Gadfly Show #784: Remote learning worked well for some students. What schools can learn from that.
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Curriculum & Instruction, Private School Choice, Teachers & School Leaders
The Education Gadfly Show #783: One teacher’s call for choice and content-rich curricula
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Curriculum & Instruction
The Education Gadfly Show #782: Whatever you do, don’t call it social and emotional learning
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Curriculum & Instruction, Standards
The Education Gadfly Show #776: Can curriculum reform succeed where the rest of standards-based reform failed?
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Curriculum & Instruction
Seeking a Truce in the Civics & History Wars: Is 'Educating for American Democracy' the Answer?
Like the cicadas now infesting the mid-Atlantic, debates over how to present American history and civics to our children come around with striking regularity. In the early 1990s, the focus was on proposed national standards for U.S. history, which the Senate eventually condemned with a vote of 99–1. A few years ago, the dust-up was over the Advanced Placement U.S. History course.
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