Gadfly Bites 11/13/20 – Define “better”
While students in grades 6-12 in Troy City Schools have indeed moved to fully-remote learning for a couple of weeks—as we talked about on Wednesday—
While students in grades 6-12 in Troy City Schools have indeed moved to fully-remote learning for a couple of weeks—as we talked about on Wednesday—
The Cleveland Public Library is partnering with nonprofit PCs for People to help distribute computers and WiFi hotspots for
It’s been over two years since the Strengthening Career and Technical Education
A Catholic school in North Canton whipped from fully in-person learning to a fully-remote model last week (cancelling a day of school and weeks’ worth of planned sports a
Just your regular reminder, in case you are not a parent in K–12 education in Ohio—that there’s still a whipsaw pandemic going on out there.
Did you know that in Ohio you can place a levy reduction issue on the ballot? I didn’t either until I read this story.
Last year, hundreds of business and industry leaders, educators, state policymakers, and advocates gathered in downtown Columbus for Aim Hire, a day-long conference focused on workforce development hosted
Our own Aaron Churchill was large and in charge on the commentary page of Cleveland.com today, talking about the Cleveland-specific fi
In the last decade, Ohio leaders have advocated for an increased focus on career and technical education
Research has shown that the human visual system is generally better at processing information that’s oriented in the horizontal and vertical planes—that i
The headline of this story asks “How is back-to-school going?” in the Cincinnati region. Folks quoted here largely say it’s going pretty well.
Fordham (probably our Ohio by the Numbers data although who can really tell?) is namechecked in this piece looking at the thorny subject of school funding.
We heard on Wednesday that the boost in rona cases across the state were a threat to in-person education.
Over the last few years, states have attempted to offer a clearer picture of how well high schools prepare students for the future by measuring college and career readiness (CCR), instead of just student achievement and graduation rates.
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 the least-anticipated release on record, Ohio published its annual school report cards in mid-September. Due to the cancellation of last spring’s state tests, there’s not much there, though the state did release graduation rates and data about students’ readiness for college and career.
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.
Research has established—and common sense reinforces—that postsecondary
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.