Gadfly Bites 11/11/22—“We can’t just dive in and teach kids how to read”
Here’s another angle on a story we talked about earlier this week: Changing the way students are taught to read in Dayton-area schools.
Here’s another angle on a story we talked about earlier this week: Changing the way students are taught to read in Dayton-area schools.
Indianan Christopher Lubienski, PhD, is not a fan of vouchers for low-income folks to attend private schools with the help of state funds.
The gist of
I don’t know from this piece what they were doing before now, but
The chair of the Senate Education Committee on Friday gave Gongwer a preview of his priorities for the upcoming lame duck legislative session.
Not much to report on, really, but let’s get to it.
So we had our NAEP teaser on Monday. Let’s dig into the details today.
It’s a sure bet that
We’re back after a Friday break and covering a plethora of news from 10/12 – 10/17/22.
As if they did not realize that the state legislature was not currently in session (it’s election season not lawgiving season, dontcha know?),
Children who start strong in reading are more likely to succeed academically as they progress through middle school, high school, and beyond. Conversely, those who struggle to read in the early grades often falter as they encounter more challenging material; many become frustrated with school and drop out.
Fordham’s latest Ohio policy brief—focused on strengthening teacher re
There’s a lot of needless blather in this piece, but the bottom line is that
Sylvia Allegretto and her colleagues at the union-backed Economic Policy Institute (EPI) have been arguing for over eighteen years that teachers are underpaid. Her latest in a long line of reports on the topic was published in August and follows the same methodology as all previous versions.
Both Fordham and the Ohio Education Association are thinking about how to strengthen the teacher workforce in our state
“We’ll
Since 2015, College Credit Plus (CCP) has offered academically eligible Ohio students in grades 7–12 the opportunity to earn postsecondary credit by taking college courses for free before graduating from high school.
Fordham’s Aaron Churchill has an op-ed in the
Here are two “big picture” looks at Ohio report card data.
Helping students catch up from more than two years of school-closure-related learning loss will be an impossible task if they do not have regular access to grade-level work in their classrooms.
Unless there’s a political or ideological controversy, curricular decisions in schools and districts rarely make headlines. That’s too bad because these choices are immensely important.
A little bit of report card hangover to start with today.
We’ll start today not with the obvious story, but with one that is near and dear to my dad heart:
Fordham’s recent report on turning around low-per