Gadfly Bites 6/7/19 – The other Denial, Ohio
Jeff MurrayFordham, great and small: Our own Chad Ald
Gadfly Bites 6/5/19 – The “Is Jeff Too Darn Cynical?” edition
Jeff MurrayEveryone else I’ve talked to thinks this story is unequivocally great.
Gadfly Bites 6/3/19 – Sounds familiar
Jeff MurrayAgain with the business connection to schools!
Gadfly Bites 5/31/19 – Uninspiring
Jeff MurrayIn case you missed it, the Senate Education Committee this week heard import
Gadfly Bites 5/29/19 – The mysterious inner workings of the media
Jeff MurrayApropos of nothing (at least, nothing that is obvious to me),
Gadfly Bites 5/24/19 – The grinder
Jeff MurrayAs budget season grinds on, hearings continue on all things HB 166. This includes things that are not in the budget bill but might eventually be.
Ohio should eliminate its waiting lists for private school choice
Aaron ChurchillAll families deserve the opportunity to choose schools, whether public or private, that meet their needs and wants. To its credit, Ohio has been a trailblazing state when it comes to supporting private-school choice via state-funded scholarships, a.k.a.
Tackling Ohio’s toughest education challenges: Expand interdistrict open enrollment
Ohio Education GadflyEditor’s Note: Back in September 2018, awaiting the election of our next governor, we at the Fordham Institute began developing a set of policy proposals that we belie
Gadfly Bites 5/20/19 – The old and the new
Jeff MurrayIt may be a new week, but it’s the same old news to be had it seems.
Gadfly Bites 5/17/19 – How do you say “absorb” in Latin?
Jeff MurrayA TV news outlet in Cincinnati this week produced a short but admirably wide-ranging piece exploring
Gadfly Bites 5/15/19 – Whose frustration, your honor?
Jeff MurrayIn case you missed it, Fordham is part of a coalition o
Testimony given before the Ohio Senate Finance Subcommittee on Primary and Secondary Education – 5/14/19
Chad L. AldisNote: Today, the Ohio Senate Finance Subcommittee on Primary and Secondary Education heard testimony on HB 166, the state’s new biennial bu
Gadfly Bites 5/13/19 – Equal opportunity whiners
Jeff MurrayMake of this what you will: A 2017 blog written by our own Aaron Churchill is “mistaken” for a research study and its points exaggerated (IMHO) in this com
Gadfly Bites 5/10/19 – The bad, the worse, and the truly weird
Jeff MurrayToday’s clips are a mix of bizarreness and absurdity that I’d like to call “bizzurdity”. I’m sure it will stick. Read on to see what I’m talking about.
Gadfly Bites 5/8/19 – Slightly less
Jeff MurrayIt’s budget season around here, which I think is kind of like allergy season: Endless, persistent, and annoying, but with slightly less snot.
Tackling Ohio’s toughest education challenges: Tie tenure to teacher performance
Ohio Education GadflyEditor’s Note: Back in September 2018, awaiting the election of our next governor, we at the Fordham Institute began developing a set of policy proposals that we believe can lead to increased achievement and greater o
Gadfly Bites 5/6/19 – The hidden problem
Jeff MurrayKinda weird: Fordham’s Chad Aldis gets more column inches than the ed board themselves in this editorial
Testimony given before the Ohio House Finance Committee – 5/6/19
Chad L. AldisNOTE: The Finance Committee of the Ohio House of Representatives today heard testimony on Substitute House Bill 166, the biennial budget bill.
Gadfly Bites 5/3/19 – All the news that’s fit to print
Jeff MurrayThe only education news that anyone is interested in to close this week is the passage of HB 154 out of both the House committee and out of the full House
Gadfly Bites 5/1/19 – Blink twice
Jeff MurrayI think the mission of the Elyria YWCA got hijacked by tantruming toddlers somehow.
Give charter schools the freedom to hire great teachers
Jessica PoinerStarting in the early 2000s, with the implementation of No Child Left Behind, federal law required states to ensure that all public school teachers were “highly qualified.” That meant having a bachelor’s degree, full state certification, and subject-area mastery, often
Gadfly Bites 4/29/19 – Old news
Jeff MurrayThere are several questions and a ton of out-of-date information in this piece looking at
Gadfly Bites 4/26/19 – Another day at the office
Jeff MurrayThe benevolent, student-centric process of “school absorption” described in this piece is not possible given the way charter and district schools are run i
Gadfly Bites 4/24/19 – “I really hope it’s not just going back to what the district was doing before.”
Jeff MurrayIt may be quiet around Capitol Square this week, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t things for Fordhamites to talk about.
Tackling Ohio’s toughest education challenges: Broaden eligibility for private school scholarships
Ohio Education GadflyEditor’s Note: Back in September 2018, awaiting the election of our next governor, we at the Fordham Institute began developing a set of policy proposals that we belie
Gadfly Bites 4/22/19 – Creative and innovative
Jeff MurrayThe thrust of this article is that the three finalists
Gadfly Bites 4/19/19 - Wish list
Jeff MurrayIf I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times: Budget season is silly season. And reporters are not immune.
Great teachers make for great principals
Aaron ChurchillNot long ago, we at Fordham collaborated with Public Impact to call attention to school districts’ uneven practices when recruiting and s