Gadfly Bites 9/29/21—There’s only one hand that matters
Pardon the brief interruption of service on Monday. Back with you with lots of good clips!
Pardon the brief interruption of service on Monday. Back with you with lots of good clips!
Important new research
We start our Friday clips with a trio of STEM-related stories.
Fordham’s Chad Aldis was extensively quoted in Crain’s this week—along with other commentators—discussing legislative changes recently wrought upon school funding, school choice programs, and state report cards.
It’s no secret that many of the best public schools are located in America’s leafy suburbs. They’re typically staffed by well-trained teachers, boast up-to-date textbooks and technology, and offer advanced and specialized coursework.
Please don’t let the focus of this piece on school transportation woes in central Ohio school districts fool you. Numerous issues of accuracy and lateness have been building in districts large and small for years—long before anyone ever heard of SARS-CoV-2.
One unforeseen consequence of broadening free lunch for schools is, apparently, that there is not enough of certain foods to go around.
The recent report by Ohio State University Professors Kogan and Lavertu—putting some very sobering numbers on pandemic-influenced learning loss in the Buckeye State—received national coverage from AEI’s blo
Here is a decade-long program in central Ohio whereby a third-party nonprof
Ohio Charter News Weekly is back from a brief hiatus and we’re catching up on all the news you can use from 8/27 to today! While we were out
A recent research paper review—on the topic of pandemic-era academic impacts on students—written by Fordham’s Jessica Poiner became the law of the land in Ohio when it was linked and quoted in Gongwer the oth
Gadfly Bites is back back back! Sorry about that, y’all.
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.
Ohio Charter News Weekly will be on hiatus next week; returning on 9/10/21. Kudos
Gadfly Bites will be on vacation for a bit, you lucky readers; but your luck runs out on 9/8/21 when it all starts again.
Schools across the Miami Valley areas, including charter and private schools, are finding it even more challenging than usual, they say, in filling
Post-secondary preparation supports are numerous and common in high schools across the country.
Here’s the final look at Columbus City Schools’ summer program this year, including the news that 112 of the 412 seniors in the class of 2021 w
We will top and tail today’s edition of the Bites with two “say what?” clips.
Earlier this summer, Ohio’s state superintendent Paolo DeMaria announced his retirement, effective in September.
The Dispatch is celebrating the first day of school today—for a year that they characteri
Forward motion in West Virginia
An interesting, if tangential topic to start our Friday: The latest annual report on poverty trends from the Ohio Association of Community Action Agencies notes an ongoing lack of broadband access in some parts of the s
I have to admit I didn’t realize just how venerable (for lack of a better word) those schools-specific public transit routes for Cincinnati City Schools students were—in use for more than 40 years—which explains to my satisfaction why district officials were so incensed when they learned that those r
The new school year is starting up in an increasing number of schools and districts around Ohio.
The end of suburban “opportunity hoarding”?
RedefinED’s Matthew Ladner posits that a number of factors—including an ongoing baby bust, that crazy little thing called ‘rona, and the recent removal of restrictions on where charter schools can locate—will c
I know we’re not supposed to talk about “Covid slide” among kids because there is no such thing.