Gadfly Bites 4/20/22—Parks and wreck
Jeff MurrayApologies for the inadvertent time warp in Monday’s clips. Should have been dated 4/18, of course. Proper 4/22 version coming up Friday!
Assessing a standards-aligned physical science curriculum
Jeff MurrayWhile not as rapidly embraced as its math and ELA cousins, which have great merit, a new set of science standards has slowly gained traction in a majority of states.
Gadfly Bites 4/15/22—McD’s gets degrees
Jeff MurrayHere’s a fantastic story about Jeannette Boyle of East Canton who recently earned
Ohio’s teacher pension mess
Aaron ChurchillDue to massive financial woes, Ohio suspended cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) for retired teachers in July 2017.
Benefits and balancing acts: The impact of faith on educational outcomes
Jeff MurrayA 2018 Pew Research Center study demonstrated the perhaps surprising fact that the United States remains a robustly religious country, indeed the most devout of all the wealthy Western democracies.
Gadfly Bites 4/11/22—Consolidate! Consolidaaaate!!
Jeff MurrayWhy yes, that is a Doctor Who/Dalek reference in the title of today’s clips. How astute of you to notice!
Gadfly Bites 4/6/22—Scraping the bottom: Plasma and PBS
Jeff MurrayNot much to talk about at all today; and what there is, well… Just take a look.
Intensive interventions and the third grade reading guarantee
Aaron ChurchillPassed in 2012, Ohio’s third grade reading guarantee aims to ensure that all children have the foundational literacy skills needed for success in middle school and beyond.
Gadfly Bites 3/21/22—So hard
Jeff MurrayNot much to talk about today, but at least the clip we have features my colleague Aaron Churchill talking about a topic near and dear to all of
Gadfly Bites 3/18/22—Heads in the sand
Jeff MurrayData guru Aaron Churchill is quoted here and some of his Fordham-produced data is cited as well on the topic of enrollment declines in Miami V
Gadfly Bites 3/16/22—Let’s call it wordsmithing
Jeff MurrayLots of inaccurate and misleading information here, if you ask me, regarding the financial situation in Ross Local Schools.
Gadfly Bites 3/14/22—Debunked but still in use
Jeff MurrayTrust me, none of these elected school board members in Berea are any better informed about school choice than they were before the
Gadfly Bites 3/11/22—Everybody needs a Yugo sometime, I guess
Jeff MurrayDon’t look now, but it seems that a number of Ohio school districts are tentatively starting to declare victory against the Covid slide in student progress and achievement.
Lessons from a pilot tutoring project
Jeff MurrayFolks who have “tutoring” as the hoped-for winning square on their post-Covid bingo card will want to pay close attention to a recent report detailing a field experiment in virtual tutoring. A group of researchers led by Sally Sadoff of the University of California San Diego created the pilot program and tested its efficacy via a controlled experiment.
Gadfly Bites 3/9/22—Schools of choice, people
Jeff MurrayA seeming hodgepodge of clips today, but the throughline is delish. Check it out. First up is an opinion piece from a long-time columnist at the Dayton Daily News with whom I am not familiar. Perhaps he has never written about education previously?
RemotEDx: A closer look at how Ohio spent some of its federal Covid relief dollars
Jessica PoinerIn March of 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic was just beginning its deadly sweep across the United States, Ohio became the first state to close
Gadfly Bites 3/7/22—Woe and whoa
Jeff MurrayWhile the days of multiple Columbus City Schools buildings “pivoting to remote learning” due to huge numbers of absent staff members seem to be over for now,
Gadfly Bites 3/4/22—I believe the proper term is “between gigs”
Jeff MurrayI am reasonably sure that some of you, my lovely readers, occasionally say to yourselves, “Gadfly Bites is being too hard on this or that media outlet; surely it is not skewing coverage of certain topics as much as our humble clips compiler thinks.” Perhaps you are correct from time to time, but piec