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Governance
Gadfly Bites 8/5/20 – Unofficially
While this is a story about the fall reopening plans for Par Excellence Academy in Newark, that is not the point I wish to focus on for the purposes of these clips.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 8/3/20 – Celebrations
In case you were wondering, Big Walnut High School’s super spreader event in-person graduation happened as scheduled on July 25.
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Charter Schools
Ohio partakes in the growth and diversification of charter school facilities funding
One of the starkest differences between charter and traditional district schools is in the area of facilities funding.
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Personalized Learning
School in the time of a pandemic: How two districts wrestled with reopening schools
It’s important to give Ohio school districts’ reopening plans a close look, even if they’re now void in the many locales around the state that will start the fall fully online. Eventually—hopefully sooner rather than later—this pandemic will fade, and schools will be right back in the positions they were in earlier this summer, needing to create reopening plans again.
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Personalized Learning
As schools stay shut, what will be done to support special-needs students?
With Covid-19 cases rising in Ohio and other parts of the nation, a depressing reality is starting to set in: A whole lot of schools aren’t going to open for in-person learning this fall.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 7/31/20 – What exactly grows out of a pandemic pod?
Weeks of questions, concerns, protests, and petitions over Dayton City Schools’ disastrous transportation scheme f
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 7/29/20 – Robust disaster
We start today with what could likely end up being News of the Moot.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 7/27/20 – How (maybe) to
In the discussion of whether and how to reopen schools in the fall, the spotlight falls (sort of) on private schools in central Ohio.
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 7.24.20
Assessing parent satisfaction with distance learning
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Curriculum & Instruction
In the midst of coronavirus, connectivity matters more than ever
In its recent guidance on reopening schools, the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) noted that the Covid-19 pandemic has revealed and exacerbated “deeply rooted social and educational inequities.” Sadly, that’s exactly right.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 7/22/20 – The question of
We continue our theme of low-quality clips this week.
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School Finance
Federal relief funding should be used to help schools reopen
With Covid-19 cases on the rise and state budgets in crisis, federal lawmakers seem poised to pass another round of stimulus.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 7/17/20 – Virtually yours
In case you missed it, there was a meeting of the state board of education earlier this week.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 7/15/20 – If I do say so myself
We start today with a Fordham cite—always fun.
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Governance
A closer look at Ohio’s plan to reopen schools in the fall
It’s no secret that the national debate about reopening schools has been heating up.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 7/13/20 – Adults ask, “What lesson do we want to teach students?”
Officials at Cleveland Metropolitan School District and the Say Yes to Education program in the city sound very
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 7/10/20 – The electronic fine print
State Senator Peggy Lehner took a visit to the I Promise School in Akron (pre-pandemic, I’m guessing), and the experi
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Career & Technical Education
Ohio has assets to retool and reinvest in our people
Editor’s Note: The Thomas B. Fordham Institute occasionally publishes guest commentaries on its blogs. The views expressed by guest authors do not necessarily reflect those of Fordham.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 7/8/20 – Sometimes you have to look hard for interesting clips
The Dispatch took a gander at which educational institutions—including K-12 schools—in central Ohio were ap
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Accountability & Testing
Filtering out the noise to achieve a clearer picture of student engagement
Editor’s Note: The Thomas B. Fordham Institute occasionally publishes guest commentaries on its blogs. The views expressed by guest authors do not necessarily reflect those of Fordham.
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Accountability & Testing
Why Ohio must not weaken its early literacy interventions
Enacted in 2012, Ohio’s (well-named) Third Grade Reading Guarantee aims to ensure that children can read proficiently by the end of third grad
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 7/6/20 – Control
In case you missed it over the long holiday weekend, Governor DeWine issued some preliminary guidelines for schools to reopen in the fall.
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 7.2.20
Thomas Sowell—writer, economist, social theorist, and currently a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution—is having a moment at age 90. He has long been a champion of high-quality education as a source of power for Black youth.
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Personalized Learning
Ohio parents are right to want children back in school this fall
To go back or not to go back? That’s the question on everyone’s mind as we inch closer to August and the beginning of a new school year.
