Gadfly Bites 10/23/20 – Going traditional
We heard on Wednesday that the boost in rona cases across the state were a threat to in-person education.
We heard on Wednesday that the boost in rona cases across the state were a threat to in-person education.
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.
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
“I just think it’s not a terribly appropriate time to be [measuring districts].
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.
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.
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.
2020 has brought no shortage of headlines—and many of them aren’t exactly heartwarming. Education is no exception.
I could be the teensiest bit biased here, but this is my favorite of the school reopening plans I have read about so far.
Fordham’s Chad Aldis is quoted in this coverage of a new report aimed at providing a roadmap for Ohio to increase the percentage of adults who have completed a postsecondary ce
As of spring 2019, sixteen states have enacted laws requiring schools to hold back students when they fail to read proficiently by the end of third grade.
A new school year typically brings a fresh outlook and new hope.
All y’all know that we love positive charter school stories here at the Bites.
Following Wednesday’s voting/territory transfer story, we return you to