Gadfly Bites 11/11/22—“We can’t just dive in and teach kids how to read”
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.
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.
Indianan Christopher Lubienski, PhD, is not a fan of vouchers for low-income folks to attend private schools with the help of state funds.
The gist of
Providing needed services
I don’t know from this piece what they were doing before now, but
When and why families stop using school choice programs might be just as important to understand as why they opt into them in the first place. While supporters and researchers typically focus on issues of school quality, educational fit, and student needs, new data from Michigan suggest there is much more at play.
The chair of the Senate Education Committee on Friday gave Gongwer a preview of his priorities for the upcoming lame duck legislative session.
Not much to report on, really, but let’s get to it.
So we had our NAEP teaser on Monday. Let’s dig into the details today.
It’s a sure bet that
Is it possible that attending a high-performing school may help young people live healthier lives? An intriguing new paper from the American Medical Association’s JAMA Network open access journal says yes, though with some important caveats. A research team lead by Dr.
We’re back after a Friday break and covering a plethora of news from 10/12 – 10/17/22.
Report card success = student success
As if they did not realize that the state legislature was not currently in session (it’s election season not lawgiving season, dontcha know?),
Continuing discussion of important research
Fordham’s latest Ohio policy brief—focused on strengthening teacher re
There’s a lot of needless blather in this piece, but the bottom line is that
Sylvia Allegretto and her colleagues at the union-backed Economic Policy Institute (EPI) have been arguing for over eighteen years that teachers are underpaid. Her latest in a long line of reports on the topic was published in August and follows the same methodology as all previous versions.
Both Fordham and the Ohio Education Association are thinking about how to strengthen the teacher workforce in our state
Important new research
“We’ll
Since 2015, College Credit Plus (CCP) has offered academically eligible Ohio students in grades 7–12 the opportunity to earn postsecondary credit by taking college courses for free before graduating from high school.
Fordham’s Aaron Churchill has an op-ed in the
Here are two “big picture” looks at Ohio report card data.