Testimony presented before the Senate Primary and Secondary Education Committee on SB 178
NOTE: Today, the Ohio Senate’s Primary and Secondary Education Committee heard testimony on
NOTE: Today, the Ohio Senate’s Primary and Secondary Education Committee heard testimony on
Patrick O’Donnell informs us that,
Gadfly Bites is back from the holiday stuffed and happy. Hope you are too! We are covering clips from 11/18 – 11/28.
News reports make the situation crystal clear: School transportation in central Ohio, and elsewhere, is in disarray.
Ohio Charter News will not be distributed next week due to the holiday. Our next edition will publish on December 2. Happy Thanksgiving! Grand opening
Gadfly Bites will be on vacation/holiday all next week. That should help your own turkey go down a little smoother.
In the education world, the last couple months have been awash in news and commentary about sagging student achievement in the wake of the pandemic.
In 2010, a group of researchers from the World Bank and the Central Bank of Brazil began to study the efficacy of a financial education program delivered to high schoolers in Brazil that aimed to help young people make good decisions around saving, borrowing, and credit usage.
NOTE: Today, the state board of education heard public comment on a pending resolution which would call for the elimination of the
Today’s headline says it all for me, but a) I can’t make this gig all about myself or all 9 of you dedicated Gadfly Bites subscribers will no doubt abandon ship, and b) this “other” story is interesting also.
Here’s another angle on a story we talked about earlier this week: Changing the way students are taught to read in Dayton-area schools.
If you’ve been paying attention to education headlines this fall, you’ve likely noticed a spate of think pieces and analyses
Indianan Christopher Lubienski, PhD, is not a fan of vouchers for low-income folks to attend private schools with the help of state funds.
Starting a teaching career is no easy feat. There are students and staff to get to know, curricula to learn, school routines and expectations to get acquainted with, and a host of other challenges. For many novice teachers, the first few years can be overwhelming enough to push them out of the profession entirely.
The gist of
Providing needed services
I don’t know from this piece what they were doing before now, but
Recently released NAEP results confirm a harsh reality already indicated by state tests and report cards: Ohio students suffered
The grouping of students into smaller, more homogeneous cohorts is a widespread instructional strategy utilized in elementary classrooms across the country. It is intended to boost the academic outcomes of all students through instruction targeted at an appropriate level, be that remedial or advanced or somewhere in between.