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Governance
Gadfly Bites 11/20/24—Absentia
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Curriculum & Instruction
What should Ohio policymakers do to boost math proficiency?
Through its science of reading initiative, Ohio is devoting significant resources to strengthening literacy across the state. Boosting reading proficiency is essential, and this ambitious effort holds great promise to do just that.
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Accountability & Testing
How low-performing school identification changed from the NCLB to ESSA era
In 2001, Congress enacted No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the much-discussed statute that, among other things, required states to identify their lowest-performing schools and help them improve. In 2015, in an effort to address perceived problems with NCLB, lawmakers revised the law into its current form, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).
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Career & Technical Education
Ohio must measure the value of industry-recognized credentials
Ohio students are earning industry-recognized credentials in record numbers. But it's unclear whether doing so will boost graduates’ job or income prospects. Here are two important measures the state can use to determine the value of credentials.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 11/18/24—Conversation or monologue?
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 11.15.24
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. One final post-election news story
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 11/15/24—The “process”
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 11/13/24—Please mess with success
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 11/11/24—Icky
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 11.8.24
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. Post-election news pt. 1 – Kentucky
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 11/8/24—Moving parts
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Curriculum & Instruction
The impact of an influx of English Learners on existing students
The number of English learner (EL) students enrolled in public schools has grown substantially in the United States over the past two decades. How has this impacted non-EL students in those schools? New research aims to find out.
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Accountability & Testing
With third-grade retention in shambles, it’s another year of social promotion in Ohio
Without a strong third grade retention policy, it’s a sure bet that Ohio students who cannot read proficiently are being promoted to fourth grade. We look at the data which starkly illustrate the problematic return of “social promotion.”
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 11/4/24—Money (not) well spent
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Accountability & Testing
Keeping Ohio’s talented students in the Buckeye State should be a priority for policymakers
The Economist recently made the case that the United States economy is the envy of the world.
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 11.1.24
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 11/1/24—No follow-ups
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 10/30/24—Competition abounds
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Curriculum & Instruction
Ohio receives a federal grant to support its early literacy efforts
Last year, Ohio policymakers established a statewide science of reading initiative. And this year, that initiative is well underway.
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 10.25.24
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 10/25/24—And they would have got away with it too…
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Teachers & School Leaders
Teacher salary reforms could boost efforts to retain more early-career educators
About a month ago, I published an analysis of the starting salaries of teachers working in school districts across the Cleveland and Columbus metro areas. Strong entry-level pay is crucial as schools work to attract talented folks into the profession.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 10/23/24—Complicated calculus? Downright twisted, if you ask me
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Career & Technical Education
A closer look at Ohio’s industry-recognized credential data
Since taking office in 2019, Governor DeWine has prioritized expanding and improving
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Curriculum & Instruction
Implementation of citizen science curriculum in elementary school: A case study
The term “citizen science” refers to research in any field conducted with participation from the general public and/or amateur researchers—a way of crowd-sourcing data in more volume through observations or experiments conducted outside of a lab.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 10/21/24—Please won’t you be our neighbor?
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 10.18.24
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. The champion and the championed
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 10/18/24—The art and architecture of connecting the dots
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Charter Schools
Ohio’s high-quality charter funding initiative is making schools better
Under the bold leadership of Governor Mike DeWine and Lt. Governor Jon Husted, Ohio lawmakers enacted the Quality Community Schools Support Fund (QCSSF) in 2019.
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Charter Schools
Lt. Governor Jon Husted earns national honor for supporting Ohio charter schools
Today, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools and the Thomas B. Fordham Institute honored Ohio Lt. Governor Jon Husted with the 2024 Champion for Charter Schools Award.
