One successful formula for teaching young children to read online

Can children learn to read via fully online instruction?

Gadfly Bites 4/25/22—Notice that no actual teaching is inferred or implied by anyone

Gadfly Bites 4/22/22—Mediocrity abides

Gadfly Bites 4/20/22—Parks and wreck

Apologies for the inadvertent time warp in Monday’s clips. Should have been dated 4/18, of course. Proper 4/22 version coming up Friday!

Gadfly Bites 4/18/22—Refurbishing required

Assessing a standards-aligned physical science curriculum

While 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

Here’s a fantastic story about Jeannette Boyle of East Canton who recently earned

Gadfly Bites 4/13/22—Space-y

Benefits and balancing acts: The impact of faith on educational outcomes

A 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!!

Why yes, that is a Doctor Who/Dalek reference in the title of today’s clips. How astute of you to notice!

Gadfly Bites 4/8/22—Google it

Gadfly Bites 4/6/22—Scraping the bottom: Plasma and PBS

Not much to talk about at all today; and what there is, well… Just take a look.

The big blur: How to erase the boundaries between high school, college, and career

Over the last several years, cities and states across the nation have invested enormous amounts of time, money, and energy in public and private efforts aimed at increasing postsecondary attainment. Many initiatives have focused on removing barriers like cost.

Gadfly Bites 4/4/22—Grab bag

Gadfly Bites 4/1/22—Foolin’

Gadfly Bites 3/30/22—Next time leave out the fortune cookie

Intensive interventions and the third grade reading guarantee

Passed 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 3/28/22—Because the district might do what now?

Gadfly Bites 3/25/22—Standouts

Gadfly Bites 3/23/22—“Less buildings make you more efficient”

Gadfly Bites 3/21/22—So hard

Not 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

Data 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

Lots 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

Trust me, none of these elected school board members in Berea are any better informed about school choice than they were before the

Ohio Charter News Weekly – 3.11.22

Charter innovations

Gadfly Bites 3/11/22—Everybody needs a Yugo sometime, I guess

Don’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

Folks 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

A 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

In 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

While 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,