Gadfly Bites 8/25/25—Ohio’s private school community is calling attention to itself. Are you listening?
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In a recent New York Times column, David Brooks brought more national attention to the “Southern surge”—the rising educational performance of states such as
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Ohio districts that do not participate in interdistrict open enrollment appear to be motivated by keeping specific types of students out of their classrooms: the students who could most benefit from a better school option.
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Providing some form of “no strings attached” money to low-income individuals and monitoring the results is a longstanding research protocol aimed at finding a tipping point at which people’s lives measurably improve. Compared to what? Often it’s a comparison with others who are given lesser amounts in randomized control trials.
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Conventional wisdom holds that elected officials pay a political price when they champion bold education reforms. These efforts, after all, usually step on the toes of powerful interest groups—most notably, teachers’ unions, which can organize opposition and punish reformers at the ballot box.
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Students who experience homelessness are at high risk for a number of negative academic outcomes—including chronic absenteeism, course failure, and low test scores—to say nothing of the physical and emotional toll. But these negative outcomes are not a foregone conclusion.