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The Education Gadfly Show: The legacy of Lamar Alexander

The Education Gadfly Show: State budget cuts and our schools

The Education Gadfly Show: Why public education may never return to normal

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

The Education Gadfly Show: Coping with the costs of declining enrollments

On this week’s podcast, Karen Hawley Miles, CEO and president of Education Resource Strategies, joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith

The Education Gadfly Show: The loathsome war on exam schools

On this week’s podcast, Fordham’s Checker Finn joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss the growing, misguided war on selective-admissions

The Education Gadfly Show: Lemov and Woolway on teaching like a champion—online

On this week’s podcast, Mike Petrilli and David Griffith are joined by Doug Lemov and Erica Woolway, co-managing director and chi

The Education Gadfly Show: Reading comprehension is not a skill, and other lessons from Fordham’s latest study

On this week’s podcast, Fordham’s Adam Tyner joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss the

The Education Gadfly Show: How to open a school safely during a pandemic

On this week’s podcast, Aaron Daly, COO of Brooklyn Laboratory Chart

The Education Gadfly Show: How the pandemic could lead to smarter school spending

On this week’s podcast, Brandon Wright joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss his and Rick Hess’s new edited volume,

The Education Gadfly Show: How did those online summer camps go?

On this week’s podcast, Timothy Daly, co-founder and CEO of EdNavigator, joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss

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

How America’s best charter schools crushed the Covid-19 challenge

On this week’s podcast, Gregg Vanourek joins Mike Petrilli to discuss Fordham’s new report that Gregg authored,

On Biden’s education platform

On this week’s podcast, Tressa Pankovits, associate director of Reinventing America's Schools at the Progressive Policy Institute, joins Mike Petrilli a

The Education Gadfly Show: What about outdoor classes this fall?

On this week’s podcast, Erin Einhorn, a national reporter for NBC News, joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to talk about her recent

The Education Gadfly Show: Another reason for more school autonomy

On this week’s podcast, David Osborne, director of the Reinventing America’s Schools Project at the Progressive Policy Institute, joins Checker

The Education Gadfly Show: Should districts outsource virtual learning?

On this week’s podcast, Rob Kremer, director of government relations at Pearson, owner of Connections Academy, joins Mike Petrilli and Dav

The Education Gadfly Show: NAEP’s flawed reading revamp

On this week’s podcast, Checker Finn and David Griffith discuss the flawed effort to revamp NAEP’s reading framework.

The Education Gadfly Show: What the coronavirus resurgence means for reopening schools

On this week’s podcast, Mike Petrilli and David Griffith discuss whether and how schools should reopen in the fall.

The Education Gadfly Show: Why fall testing could do more harm than good

On this week’s podcast, Mora Segal, CEO of Achievement Network, joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss the organization’s lat

The Education Gadfly Show: How assessment data can drive instruction this fall

On this week’s podcast, Mike Petrilli, Tran Le, Amber Northern, and David Griffith discuss Fordham’s new

The Education Gadfly Show: The case for good schools as a state constitutional right

On this week’s podcast, Nina Rees, President and CEO of the National Alliance for Public

The Education Gadfly Show: Effecting real change in America

On this week’s podcast, Checker Finn, Mike Petrilli, and David Griffith discuss what it takes for real change to happen in America.

The Education Gadfly Show: School districts failed the remote learning test

On this week’s podcast, Robin Lake, director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education, talks with Mike Petrilli and David Griffith about how well school districts handled remote learning this spring. On the Research Minute, Olivia Piontek joins Mike and David to examine how data on how academic growth affects parents’ perception of school quality.

The Education Gadfly Show: The crisis’s outsized impacts on Catholic schools

On this week’s podcast, Michael McShane, the director of national research at EdChoice, joins Mike Petrilli to discuss how Catholic

The Education Gadfly Show: The link between location and income

This week’s podcast guest is John V.

The Education Gadfly Show: Teacher to Chief: Pathways to Education Leadership

This week we're hosting "Teacher to Chief," a special episode with members of Chiefs for Chan

The Education Gadfly Show: What Americans think about schools’ response to the COVID crisis

On this week’s podcast, Paul DiPerna, vice president of research and innovation at EdChoice, joins Mike Petrilli and D

The Education Gadfly Show: A blueprint for reopening schools

On this week’s podcast, John Bailey, visiting fellow at AEI, joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss AEI’s new