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Gadfly Bites 5/8/26—“Inside” the echo chamber, maybe
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A closer look at what Ohio’s attendance dashboard can do
Ohio’s new student attendance dashboard offers plenty of opportunities for school leaders to make a positive impact on attendance rates. Here’s how they can take advantage of this useful data to better support their students.
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Gadfly Bites 5/6/26—Ya got trouble, folks…
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Gadfly Bites 5/1/26—How about providing some tough answers instead?
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Gadfly Bites 4/29/26—Let’s give ‘em nothing to talk about
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Ohio should make the 180-day school year the norm again
For far too long, Ohio has been chipping away at instructional time in schools, with negative consequences for students. Here’s why the state must restore a baseline expectation that its schools are open for in-person instruction at least 180 days per year, 7 hours per day.
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Caught up in the machine: How employee hiring processes impact teacher and principal diversity
Efforts to broaden the demographics of the U.S.
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Ohio’s attendance dashboard is a step in the right direction
In his state of the state address on March 10, Governor DeWine shined a spotlight on chronic absenteeism.
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Gadfly Bites 4/24/26—Some celebrations are different than others
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Gadfly Bites 4/22/26—Consider all wagons circled
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Gadfly Bites 4/20/26—Good ideas never go out of style
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Gadfly Bites 4/17/26—The calculus of budget deficits
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Gadfly Bites 4/15/26—Exemplary disasters
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Stormy weather for college application decisions?
The college visit is a time-honored tradition in the search process, and how such tours go likely plays a role in any final application decision. A new working paper looks at one college visit wildcard—the weather—to see if something so arbitrary might actually sway kids’ final decisions.
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Gadfly Bites 4/13/26—Seeing into the future
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Gadfly Bites 4/10/26—Same kids, same neighborhood
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Gadfly Bites 4/8/26—“Preserve the awesome”
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Gadfly Bites 4/6/26—Same old, same old
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Gadfly Bites 4/3/26—Grappling with a disaster of their own making
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Gadfly Bites 4/1/26—Focused on the future
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Gadfly Bites 3/30/26—Academic pillars
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Gadfly Bites 3/27/26—A MULTI million dollar question
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Gadfly Bites 3/25/26—IYDKYDK
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Gadfly Bites 3/23/26—If everyone is certified as an expert, then no one really is
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Gadfly Bites 3/20/26—Creativity, critical thinking, and problem solving…but slowly
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Gadfly Bites 3/18/26—Greenbacks, yellow buses, and white heat
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Gadfly Bites 3/16/26—Nearly miraculous
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Gadfly Bites 3/13/26—Who can say?
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Gadfly Bites 3/11/26—New wave
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Ohio must improve transportation for private and charter school students
For over a half century, Ohio has sought to ensure that every student who needs a ride to and from school gets one—no matter their school of choice. Under longstanding state law, districts must offer transportation to all resident K–8 students, with only a few exceptions such as students who live within two miles of their school or more than thirty minutes away.
