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Commentary

12.30.2015

Gadfly Bites - 12/30/15

Just 'cause it says "CEO" on both doors, doesn't mean they're the same plan

Commentary

12.28.2015

Gadfly Bites - 12/28/15

Jeff Murray

Charters and districts under the microscope

Commentary

12.23.2015

Gadfly Bites - 12/23/15

Jeff Murray

Will Browns fans rejoice at THIS huge win for Cleveland?

Commentary

12.21.2015

Education in Ohio: The best and worst of 2015

Jamie Davies O'Leary, Jeff Murray

The top 3 best and worst things we saw this year

Commentary

12.21.2015

Gadfly Bites - 12/21/15

Jeff Murray

What the heck is up with the Youngstown Academic Distress Commission? Nothing and everything

Commentary

12.18.2015

The Best and Worst in Education in Ohio in 2015: Teaser Edition

Jeff Murray, Jamie Davies O'Leary

Looking back at the year in education, part 1

Policy Brief

12.18.2015

Accountability & Testing, Teachers & School Leaders

Policy Brief: Pathways to Teaching in Ohio

Jessica Poiner

A thorough overview of how teachers are trained and licensed

Commentary

12.18.2015

Gadfly Bites - 12/18/15

Jeff Murray

A new clock is ticking in Youngstown

Commentary

12.16.2015

Gadfly Bites - 12/16/15

Jeff Murray

News from the state board of ed, non-news from Youngstown

Commentary

12.14.2015

Charter Schools

Text of testimony given before the Ohio Board of Education 12/14/15

Chad L. Aldis

Written remarks

Commentary

12.14.2015

Gadfly Bites - 12/14/15

Jeff Murray

Fordhamites present and past in the news

Commentary

12.11.2015

Gadfly Bites - 12/11/15

Jeff Murray

The parental "broccoli rule" to guide new state policy on truancy

Commentary

12.9.2015

Gadfly Bites - 12/9/15

Jeff Murray

Adults continue fiddling while Youngstown burns

Commentary

12.7.2015

Charter Schools

Ohio’s charter school closure law is becoming irrelevant, and that’s a good thing

Jamie Davies O'Leary

New reforms should be more effective at closing bad schools

Commentary

12.7.2015

Ohio teacher evaluations: Fix them, don’t ditch them

Jessica Poiner

ESEA reauthorization provides an important lens through which to view OTES

Commentary

12.7.2015

Gadfly Bites: Ohio education news and opinion delivered to you, with a twist

Ohio Education Gadfly

News you can really use

Commentary

12.7.2015

Gadfly Bites - 12/7/15

The clock is ticking in Youngstown, Lorain, and Coventry districts

Commentary

12.4.2015

Gadfly Bites - 12/4/15

Jeff Murray

What's up in the judicial "teachers lounge"?

Commentary

12.2.2015

Gadfly Bites - 12/2/15

Jeff Murray

Education reform? We don't need no stinkin' education reform!

Commentary

11.30.2015

Gadfly Bites - 11/30/15

Jeff Murray

News from the Akron echo chamber

Commentary

11.25.2015

Gadfly Bites - 11/25/15

Jeff Murray

Into the cage with "Similar Students" vs. "Value Added" measures

Commentary

11.23.2015

Chad Aldis testimony on pay-to-play fees in Ohio

Chad L. Aldis

Written remarks

Commentary

11.23.2015

Our own Aaron Churchill is briefly quoted in this piece taking a preliminary look at preliminary PARCC test scores. Aaron notes that this is only preliminary data. Preliminarily. (Cleveland Plain Dealer, 11/20/15)

Commentary

11.20.2015

Gadfly Bites - 11/20/15

Jeff Murray

The strange case of journalistic CGI

Commentary

11.18.2015

Gadfly Bites - 11/18/15

Jeff Murray

Dayton City Schools still has 35 teaching vacancies to fill four months into the year. Officials are blaming large scale retirement of veteran teachers, despite having 81 new applicants show up at a recent job fair.