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Better data, better decisions: Informing school choosers to improve education markets
Demand is just as important as supply. Robert Pondiscio
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Gadfly Bites - 12/3/14
PARCC testing in Ohio, teacher pay in the spotlight, and is Common Core antithetical to Catholic education?
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Gadfly Bites - 12/2/14
Reporters affiliated with the Plain Dealer have fanned out across Northeast Ohio to interview 25 district superintendents in some depth. The individual pieces are available via the PD’s website, but here is the overview that opened the interview series, focusing on money.
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Gadfly Bites - 12/1/14
Lame duck leftovers, our sponsorship annual report, and Columbus City Schools' budget gets a closer look
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Gadfly Bites - 11/26/14
We’ll start today with an item that is only tangentially related to education. Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman announced yesterday that he would not seek a fifth term as mayor.
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Gadfly Bites - 11/25/14
Straight A Fund project update, extolling the Peterson Scholarship, and school boundary awkwardness in Columbus.
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Gadfly Bites - 11/24/14
Teacher pay requirements in state law, value-add calculations, and "right-sizing" school districts
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Gadfly Bites - 11/21/14
Testing time-limit bill passes the House, 2 Ohio districts praised for online learning efforts, and What Up, Monroe?
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Gadfly Bites - 11/20/14
Kasich on Common Core at crunch time, keeping an eye on third grade readers, and more
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Gadfly Bites - 11/19/14
A sticky record retention problem, church/state (non)separation, charter school pipelines, and more
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Charter Schools
School-choice lessons emerge from two different educational crises
Good school choice practices emerge from a charter school crisis in Indianapolis.
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Gadfly Bites - 11/18/14
Testing time limits, more Common Core radio, teacher prep programs, and What Up Ashtabula!
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Gadfly Bites - 11/17/14
Taking a breath after the "5 of 8" firestorm, Common Core implementation in Licking County, and more.
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Gadfly Bites - 11/14/14
Sausage making in the legislature, rankling education traditionalists, and more
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Accountability & Testing
Why legislators should slow-walk demands to limit Ohio’s state tests
Rushing to find a solution could swing the pendulum too far the other way
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Gadfly Bites - 11/12/14
State board of ed drama, an editorial two-fer, and camping out for school choice.
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State board makes right call on non-teacher staffing ratios
Only you can prevent internet firestorms
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Gadfly Bites - 11/11/14
One reluctant cheerleader, a gaggle of overheated carpetbaggers, and "a bundle of science" comes to Dayton.
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Gadfly Bites - 11/7/14
So we noted the AP’s somewhat nonsensical coverage yesterday of the HB 597 committee vote on Common Core repeal, but that wasn’t enough for us. We decided to reach out and try to help clear up misinformation and answer questions. This is the result.
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Gadfly Bites - 11/6/14
Common Core repeal voted out of committee, more consolidation drama, and charter closure practices
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Timing and Turnout: How Off-Cycle Elections Favor Organized Groups
Democracy in action or a power grab? John Elkins
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Lessons of Hope: How to Fix Our Schools
Joel Klein’s tenure in Gotham is already up for reappraisal. Megan Lail
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Gadfly Bites - 11/4/14
Change of tack on Common Core, labor negotiations update, and more intestinal fortitude in Youngstown
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Accountability & Testing
Next-generation teacher evaluations: Are they living up to expectations?
Early results say no. Chad Aldis
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