Gadfly Bites 10/2/20 – The whipsaw chronicles
Another day, another raft of evidence that parents looking for certainty are well and truly hosed.
Another day, another raft of evidence that parents looking for certainty are well and truly hosed.
For some reason meeting on a Saturday, the elected board of Dayton City Schools unanimously approved a phased-in plan to bring students back for a
Here’s an in-depth look at the first month of the school year at Xenia’s St. Brigid School.
Aren’t search engines great? With them, one can search for an important name (say, Aaron Churchill) and sometimes find references to that name in new places.
Making the case, part 1
It’s Wednesday, and that means the Ohio Senate’s Education Committee will be hearing testimony today. One of the bills up for debate: SB 358. That’s the one that would, among other things, extend a moratorium on state testing from last school year to this one.
Be cool, man! The boss is in town.
News from the pre-pandemic era
In case you missed it earlier this week, Fordham’s Chad Aldis testified before th
Note: Today, the Ohio Senate’s Education Committee continued hearing testimony on SB 358 which would, among other things, make critical changes to the state’s testing and accountability system in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
“I just think it’s not a terribly appropriate time to be [measuring districts].
Ohio legislators recently introduced Senate Bill 358, which proposes to cancel all state testing scheduled for spring 2021, suspend report cards for the 2020–21 and 2021–22 school years, and extend so-called “safe harbor” provisions that shield sch
I’m not sure this piece reads as entirely objective journalism, but perhaps that’s because it is unusual to see
The Dispatch editorial board giveth… (Columbus Dispatch, 9/10/20) …and
Charters closing gaps for Black and low-income students
Here’s a look at how schools in Montgomery County say they will address “the Covid slide” among their students.
We have heard a bit about school districts having trouble accessing enough laptops fo
Pretty darn quiet around here these days. To wit: we have just one clip for today.
In late July, the Democratic Party released a policy platform that included stances on a variety of issues, including education.
Arnold Glass and Mengxue Kang, psychology researchers at Rutgers-New Brunswick’s School of Arts and Sciences, are conducting an ongoing study using technology to monitor college students’ academic performance and to assess the effects of new instructional technologies on that performance.
We’ll start this week with another one of those detailed looks at the school choices being made by parents to get the best education for their children in light of
From an unlikely source comes this fantastic and very thorough look at families exercising school choice in response to the realities of a pandemic-influenced 2020-2021 s
We’re back on the clips beat from our Monday break. Lots to catch up on, so let’s go.
We’ll start today with one of the more bizarre stories to come down the pike in a while.
At sea, but not at sea
Back at the end of July, we talked about a Cincinnati area doctor who said that face shields were the best for ensuring safe in-person teaching. Especially these ones he designed back in the SARS era.
We start this week with a follow up from Friday’s Bites.
Starting the new school year early