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.
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.
The Education Gadfly Show #772: What’s going to happen to the NAEP reading test?
The Education Gadfly Show #771: Same old, same old: How districts are spending federal relief dollars (so far)
The Education Gadfly Show #770: Hooray for Florida’s new school choice legislation
On this week’s podcast, Doug Tuthill, president of Step Up for Students, joins Mik
The Education Gadfly Show #769: Should we break up behemoth school districts?
On this week’s podcast, Howard Husock, adjunct scholar in Domestic Policy Studies at AEI
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 Acceleration Imperative: A Plan to Address Elementary Students’ Unfinished Learning in the Wake of Covid-19
In school districts and charter school networks nationwide, instructional leaders are developing plans to address the enormous challenges faced by their students, families, teachers, and staff over the past year. To help kick-start their planning process, we are proud to present The Acceleration Imperative, an open-source, evidence-based document created with input from dozens of current and former chief academic officers, scholars, and others with deep expertise and experience in high-performing, high-poverty elementary schools.
The narrow path to do it right: Lessons from vaccine making for high-dosage tutoring
Mike Goldstein, Bowen PaulleHigh-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.
The Education Gadfly Show: Does Biden have the right tack on school reopenings?
Robbers or Victims? Charter Schools and District Finances
Mark WeberOpponents 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.