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Governance
Gadfly Bites 10/7/26—A matter of perspective
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Accountability & Testing
State report cards set the baseline for math improvement in Ohio
In June, lawmakers passed long-awaited and comprehensive math legislation in the form of Senate Bill 19.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 10/5/26—No way to run a railroad
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Charter Schools
Ohio charter schools’ performance in 2025–26
For more than a quarter century, public charter schools have served Ohio families and students seeking tuition-free educational options in their communities.
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 10.2.26
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 10/2/26—Two weird tricks
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 9/30/26—Sounding smart
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Accountability & Testing
How Ohio’s brand-new advanced math policy will work
Education systems often fail to challenge our very brightest students. The unfortunate result is that too many high achievers lose their edge and fall short of their potential.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 9/28/26—Ticked
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Accountability & Testing
A closer look at reading results in Ohio’s urban districts
In 2023, Ohio policymakers launched a sweeping initiative championing the science of reading, an evidence-based instructional approach that focuses on phonics and
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 9.25.26
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 9/25/26—Dogged digging
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Accountability & Testing
Ohio’s feel-good school report card masks poor student outcomes
In the wake of the September release of school report cards, education groups were in a celebratory mood.
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Charter Schools
Gadfly Bites 9/23/26—The state of state oversight
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Accountability & Testing
Will Ohio ever make a full academic recovery?
In 2023, we at Fordham released a publication titled Will Ohio’s Covid Generation Get Back on Track?
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Charter Schools
Examining charter school contract renewal length decisions by authorizers
A defining feature of charter schools is the oversight structure provided by the authorizer. It is an authorizer’s job to determine whether schools are fulfilling the terms of their charters across numerous areas, not least of which is student outcomes.
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Accountability & Testing
State report cards offer good news and bad news in reading
Consistent, rigorous implementation of the science of reading should produce literacy achievement gains. State report cards for the 2025–26 school year, which were released last week, reveal both good news and bad news on this front for Ohio.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 9/21/26—Honesty and integrity
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 9.18.26
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 9/18/26—Professor Kogan says: Always read the appendixes
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Career & Technical Education
Ohio takes a big step forward in tracking students’ workforce outcomes
Ohio’s two new education and workforce outcomes dashboards are a welcome addition to Ohio’s K-12 education transparency. They have the potential to serve a wide range of stakeholders, but especially students and their families. We take a look at them both.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 9/16/26—Inching forward
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Accountability & Testing
Fordham Institute statement on Ohio school report cards
Today, the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce released school report cards for the 2025–26 school year. Data include state math and reading exam results as well as high school graduation and chronic absenteeism rates.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 9/14/26—The calculus of asterisks
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 9.11.26
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 9/11/26—The favorite side-gig of cowpokes and weavers
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 9/9/26—More anomalies than you can shake a stick at
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Career & Technical Education
Ohio should tidy its high-priority IWIP industry credentials list, too
In Ohio, the big news in the career pathways realm is the state’s recent revamp of the
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Teachers & School Leaders
Three lessons Ohio could learn on career advising from Texas
Texas’ Effective Advising Framework is an established model to help schools implement an integrated approach to career and academic planning for students. Ohio policymakers would be wise to crib these three valuable lessons from it.
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Personalized Learning
Examining education sector mixing within homeschool families
Homeschooling in the United States is often imagined as an all-or-nothing decision: Families who choose it do so full-time, for all their children, across their entire K–12 education.
