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Gadfly Bites 2/22/21 – Dramarama
The headline of this piece on Dayton area school reopenings grabbed my attention the moment I saw it.
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Gadfly Bites 2/19/21 – “Let’s be real about this.”
Fordham’s Chad Aldis appeared on the redefinED podcast with host Matt Ladner, talking about the state of interdistrict open enrollment in the Buckeye S
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Gadfly Bites 2/17/21 – News from central Ohio’s bougie burbs
We start today in one of the bougiest of central Ohio’s bougie burbs: New Albany-Plain Local Schools.
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Gadfly Bites 2/15/21 – Oh, excuse me, sir. Just one more thing…
In case you missed it, Governor DeWine reappeared before the press—Columbo-style—just as everyone was heading out for the weekend late on Friday.
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Gadfly Bites 2/12/21 – Making up time
There may be eight inches of snow on the ground here, but our Chad Aldis was on the radio this week talking about summer school.
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Public schools should be open to all
Interdistrict open enrollment, one of the longest running and most popular forms of school choice, unlocks public school options for more than 80,000 Ohio students. It allows children to attend school in a district other than the one they live in.
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Gadfly Bites 2/8/21 – Rays of light?
As we noted on Friday, someone was bound to come along with more detail on the Ohio student enrollment data released la
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Gadfly Bites 2/5/21 – Not remotely working
I am certain that someone with a bit more knowledge will dig into these data a little more soon—you know, someone who at least knows that charter schools are public schools—but
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Gadfly Bites 2/3/21 – “A lot of work to do” is probably an understatement
Aaron Churchill’s recent op-ed in the Columbus Dispatch—in support of state testing this year—drew
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Gadfly Bites 2/1/21 – Indispensable
We’ll lead with the big stuff. Editors in Columbus opined strongly in favor of conducting state testing in schools this spring.
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Ohio is making strides in education data transparency—but there’s still work to do
In early December, InnovateOhio—a statewide initiative that aims to use technology to make state government more efficient and effective—announced th
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Gadfly Bites 1/29/21 – Juxtapositions, and other stuff
Juxtaposition 1: A celebration of school choice, with the other side’s position included for
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Gadfly Bites 1/27/21 – Celebrating National School Choice Week with clips
Our own Aaron Churchill had an op-ed in the Enquirer yesterday, discussing the findings of our recent re
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Gadfly Bites 1/25/21 – The best/worst
We start this week with a profile of the new Ohio Senate President, focusing almost entirely on education issues past, present and future.
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Gadfly Bites 1/22/21 – Strange but great
I cannot and will not say that Fordham’s recent report on interdistrict open enrollment had anything to do with the announcement this we
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Gadfly Bites 1/20/21 – Rewarding work
We start today with a quick thanks to the folks at Gongwer, who briefly noted the release of Fordham’s new report on interdistrict open enrollment. Much appreciated! (Gongwer Ohio, 1/19/21)
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Gadfly Bites 1/15/21 – The science and the art
I won’t call them silver linings—waaaaaay too soon for that (thanks to my cousin for schooling me on that, painful as that conversation might have been)—but it seems like certain adaptations to the pandemic could benefit students far beyond 2020.
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Gadfly Bites 1/13/21 – …and you shall receive
Elected school boards across Ohio are holding their organizational meetings in the early part of January, with varying levels of drama emanating from them and into the pages of the local news.
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Gadfly Bites 1/8/21 – Extra
No students in Columbus City Schools have attended in-person learning since March of 2020. Sports have been on hold since mid-November.
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Gadfly Bites 1/6/21 –One of these things is not like the others
NOTE: This is our first regular Gadfly Bites edition for 2021, covering clips from 1/1 through 1/6/21. Huge thanks for reading and subscribing!
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Gadfly Bites 1/4/21 – (Left) Hanging with 2020
NOTE: We’re back with a catch up edition covering clips from 12/23 – 12/31/20. Hope you missed me! Wednesday’s edition will catch us up with clips from 2021 so far. Fingers crossed for sanity!
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Predicting the top Ohio education issues for 2021
At this point, we’re all tired of hearing the word “unprecedented.” But clichés are clichés for a reason, and 2020 has certainly been an unprecedented year. Many of us would like nothing more than to leave this difficult year in the rearview mirror. Unfortunately, the events of 2020 seem likely to stretch into the new year.
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Five uplifting stories from Ohio education in 2020
Only a glutton for punishment would want a rehash of the biggest K–12 education stories of 2020. They are no secret—and frankly depressing: widespread school closures, predictions about massive learning losses, and students going M.I.A. from remote learning.
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Counting down the top five most-read blogs of 2020
It’s that time of year again when we at Fordham are forced to ask ourselves, “What were they thinking?” The “they” in question is you, our readers and subscribers.
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Rounding up Fordham-Ohio’s 2020 research
The Fordham Institute has built its reputation over the years on the strength of its commentary and research. We’ll leave the former for another blog, but given all of the newsworthy events, you may have missed one of our research studies released in 2020.
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Gadfly Bites 12/23/20 – Appeasement, accessibility, and additional information required.
NOTE: This is the last edition of Gadfly Bites to be published in 2020. We’re back on January 4, 2021 with a wrap up of 2020 stories. Regular service for 2021 will resume on January 6. Thank you so much for reading and subscribing!
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Gadfly Bites 12/21/20 – Getting a clearer picture
While there isn’t anything good—if you ask me (which, thankfully, no one ever does)—about the plan to induce school districts across the state to pay a bunch of lawyers to execute what will likely be a years-long court battle against school choice, the launch of the public induction effort to that en
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Gadfly Bites 12/18/20 – Kills bugs dead
We’ll start today with my favorite riddle (heard here many times before). When is a charter school not a charter school? When an Ohio newspaper wants to say something nice about them!
