Gadfly Bites 11/9/20 – “Everyone became more comfortable and tech savvy.”
A Catholic school in North Canton whipped from fully in-person learning to a fully-remote model last week (cancelling a day of school and weeks’ worth of planned sports a
A Catholic school in North Canton whipped from fully in-person learning to a fully-remote model last week (cancelling a day of school and weeks’ worth of planned sports a
Just your regular reminder, in case you are not a parent in K–12 education in Ohio—that there’s still a whipsaw pandemic going on out there.
Did you know that in Ohio you can place a levy reduction issue on the ballot? I didn’t either until I read this story.
Today we talk exclusively about money. I know we’re usually talking about money when we talk about education in Ohio, but these clips are all a bit more…overt than usual.
Our own Aaron Churchill was large and in charge on the commentary page of Cleveland.com today, talking about the Cleveland-specific fi
The headline of this story asks “How is back-to-school going?” in the Cincinnati region. Folks quoted here largely say it’s going pretty well.
Fordham (probably our Ohio by the Numbers data although who can really tell?) is namechecked in this piece looking at the thorny subject of school funding.
We heard on Wednesday that the boost in rona cases across the state were a threat to in-person education.
I have, I will admit, not been paying much attention to Tales from the Homestead (sequel to Ohio’s previous favorite soap opera Stories from the Crypt). I mean, I was holed up in the garage on vacation for a while. But really it’s just because the thing is such a freakin’ downer.
A recent article from the Tribune Chronicle in Northeast Ohio covered a school funding analysis published by the personal finance website WalletHub.
COMPILER’S NOTE: Gadfly Bites will be on vacation next week. (“Thank goodness!” I hear you cry. “You need a break. Hopefully you will return refreshed, renewed, and ready to boost up what has been—let’s face it, man—your recent mediocre work.
Cincinnati City Schools is going to a hybrid in-person/remote model after all, starting next week.
Over the last several weeks, Ohio lawmakers have been debating Senate Bill 358.
In Cincinnati, some of the district’s whipsawed parents speak. (Spectrum News 1, 10/5/20)
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.
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.
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
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.
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.