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
Gadfly Bites 3/2/22—Before the roadshow
Jeff MurrayUnnecessarily cranky headline here, if you ask me, but a generally even-keeled story on Ohio’s so-called “backpack funding”
Ohio should follow Maryland’s lead on spending federal Covid relief dollars
Jessica PoinerOver the course of the pandemic, the federal government has sent billions of dollars in emergency funding to states via three separate relief acts. A large portion of the appropriated funds within each act were earmarked for K–12 education, with the largest available funding stream being the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund, or ESSER.
Grade promotion standards and the Third Grade Reading Guarantee
Aaron ChurchillReading is essential to functioning in today’s society. Job applications, financial documents, and instruction manuals all require basic literacy. Above that, our lives are greatly enriched when we can effortlessly read the printed word.
Gadfly Bites 2/28/22—The network broadens
Jeff MurrayFollowing up from our Youngstown bombshell on Friday, current CEO/future superintendent Justin Jennings says he is excited for the work ahead.
Gadfly Bites 2/25/22—Stable, structured, and accountable…to us
Jeff MurrayWe’ll start today’s clips with what might seem at first to be a bit of a shocker: Current CEO Justin Jennings has been chosen by the elected school board as the su
Gadfly Bites 2/23/22—Not crazy
Jeff MurrayWe’re back from vacation and snarkin’ about pieces from 2/17 – 2/23. Glad you’re still here reading it all!
Gadfly Bites 2/16/22—“It takes upscaling the workforce”
Jeff MurrayGadfly Bites is on vacation Friday and Monday. We’ll be back on Wednesday, February 23 with however much snark you can stand.
A window on teachers’ hybrid work experience in the first phase of the pandemic
Jeff MurrayJust like the term “virtual schooling,” the moniker “hybrid learning”—which came to the fore at the start of Covid disruptions—does not denote one educational model.
Gadfly Bites 2/14/22—You can just feel the love for students and families, can’t you?
Jeff MurrayAn opinion piece posted in the Dispatch late on Friday is ad
Gadfly Bites 2/9/22—Down to the penny
Jeff MurrayHere’s a long piece from the Columbus Dispatch—there are other localized versions in other outlets across the state also—
Gadfly Bites 2/7/22—Love/Hate
Jeff MurrayA subset of northeast Ohio teachers and other school staffers speak out in this piece, no one holding back about why they are all s
Gadfly Bites 2/4/22—From lake to shining lake
Jeff MurrayIn case you might have missed it since it’s not strictly an education story, Intel recently announced it was going to build an enormous silicon chip production facility in exurban central Ohio, promising thousands of good new jobs to the region.
Gadfly Bites 2/2/22—The kids WILL be all right…won’t they?
Jeff MurrayYesterday, the Dayton Daily News published an op-ed in support of the EdChoice voucher program<