School reopening decisions following emergency pandemic closures have been sources of much parental angst, pundit caterwauling, and political controversy. Now that most of the dust has settled, new research gauges what was really happening in U.S. schools during this turbulent time.
We’re back, y’all. Still drying out from a rainy vacation and covering clips from 5/4 – 5/9.
Anyone want an update on how the haters’ anti-voucher lawsuit is going? Me neither. But here it is anyway.
Arts and College Preparatory Academy (a.k.a. ACPA) here in Columbus was the highest rated charter high school in Ohio, according to U.S. News and World Report.
Apologies for the inadvertent time warp in Monday’s clips. Should have been dated 4/18, of course. Proper 4/22 version coming up Friday!
Here’s a fantastic story about Jeannette Boyle of East Canton who recently earned
Why yes, that is a Doctor Who/Dalek reference in the title of today’s clips. How astute of you to notice!
Not much to talk about at all today; and what there is, well… Just take a look.
Not much to talk about today, but at least the clip we have features my colleague Aaron Churchill talking about a topic near and dear to all of
Data guru Aaron Churchill is quoted here and some of his Fordham-produced data is cited as well on the topic of enrollment declines in Miami V
Lots of inaccurate and misleading information here, if you ask me, regarding the financial situation in Ross Local Schools.
Trust me, none of these elected school board members in Berea are any better informed about school choice than they were before the
Don’t look now, but it seems that a number of Ohio school districts are tentatively starting to declare victory against the Covid slide in student progress and achievement.
A seeming hodgepodge of clips today, but the throughline is delish. Check it out. First up is an opinion piece from a long-time columnist at the Dayton Daily News with whom I am not familiar. Perhaps he has never written about education previously?
While the days of multiple Columbus City Schools buildings “pivoting to remote learning” due to huge numbers of absent staff members seem to be over for now,
I am reasonably sure that some of you, my lovely readers, occasionally say to yourselves, “Gadfly Bites is being too hard on this or that media outlet; surely it is not skewing coverage of certain topics as much as our humble clips compiler thinks.” Perhaps you are correct from time to time, but piec
