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Gadfly Bites 9/10/18 – Anticipating report cards
A quiet weekend in clips, but what we do have is all on the same topic: report cards. The Plain Dealer is looking toward the release of state report cards later this week.
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Are Ohio’s poorest districts underfunded?
In a recent report, school-funding expert Howard Fleeter analyzes Ohio districts’ revenues stretching back to 1999.
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Gadfly Bites 9/7/18 – The gridiron greats edition
The b-side of a higher-profile Dispatch editorial from earlier this week opines on the topic of transportation for charter school students in central Ohio.
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Gadfly Bites 9/5/18 – Let’s make a (tuition) deal
We’re back! And there’s a lot to cover. So let’s get to it: There are apparently some “relentless attacks” going on out there somewhere. They are, apparently, an effort to “pin” some current statewide office candidates with “blame” for something related to the demise of ECOT.
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Gadfly Bites 8/27/18 – Putting forth the effort…or not
Round two of the Dayton Daily News series The Path Forward dropped over the weekend, another huge set of articles trying to get to the heart of why Dayton City Schools’ academic success rate is so poor and how to turn that around.
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Gadfly Bites 8/27/18 – Putting fort the effort…or not
Round two of the Dayton Daily News series The Path Forward dropped over the weekend, another huge set of articles trying to get to the heart of why Dayton City Schools’ academic success rate is so poor and how to turn that around.
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Gadfly Bites 8/24/18 – All the makings of a mob
Members of the elected board of Lorain City Schools got some hard numbers this week on budget and student enrollment. Both seem pretty good, so why do they all sound so miserable in this piece?
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Gadfly Bites 8/22/18 – I remember when they called it a cheat sheet
As a sort of follow up to Monday’s story about lowered remediation rates among Ohio’s colleges over the last few years, here is a somewhat more dour look at dual credit programs.
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Keeping up with Ohio education news
As the new school year gets underway across the state, there is a constant stream of news, views, and commentary on education issues. If you want to keep up, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute has you covered!
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Gadfly Bites 8/20/18 – Good news, bad news
We start today with the good news. Briefly mentioned in Friday’s Gongwer news roundup was the seemingly super-important tidbit that college remediation rates across Ohio dropped significantly between 2010 and 2016. Tell us more, y’all. Please! (Gongwer Ohio, 8/17/18)
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Gadfly Bites 8/17/18 – Low levels
In case you didn’t know it, discussion of Ohio’s graduation requirements is still front-burner stuff for some folks.
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Gadfly Bites 8/15/18 – Friends of the friends of the court
Our own Chad Aldis was a guest on All Sides yesterday, talking about the moldering corpse of ECOT and trying to get folks to understand what the real lessons of this story are. I’m not sure anyone on the panel was listening. (WOSU-FM, Columbus, 8/14/18)
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Gadfly Bites 8/13/18 – Preventing excess absences due to ski trips in Gstaad
The list of individuals whose personal wallets the state can tap to claw back funds from the moldering and far-more-extensive-than-you-might-have-though remains of ECOT seems nearly endless when you read this piece.
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Gadfly Bites 8/10/18 – What has changed
With so much great news this week, Ohio’s education reporters could be forgiven if they are not sure where to focus their time and effort first. Here is a very brief look at the departure of White Hat Management from the charter school management space in Ohio.
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Gadfly Bites 8/8/18 – Contributing Factors, or The Whale
Reporter Josh Sweigart is still digging deeply into the difficulties facing Dayton City Schools. Case in point: his look at six factors that contribute to the observed achievement gap between black and white students in the district.
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Gadfly Bites 8/6/18 – No barrier
Geez. When you take LeBron out of the equation don’t read the sports page, there’s a lot less education news to talk about these days. What is out there is “eclectic”.
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Maximizing the language acquisition benefits of preschool
While the so-called “word gap” between children from low and high socioeconomic circumstances continues, as it has for decades, to get much attention, researchers are continuing to dig deeper into the quantity and quality of language with which young children interact. There is more to successful language acquisition than just pouring more words into their ears.
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Gadfly Bites 8/3/18 - Wrinkles
The good news: everyone in Dayton now seems to be on the same page regarding the timeline for a possible academic distress designation in the district.
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Curriculum & Instruction
How can children become good readers?
In a paper titled Ohio’s Plan to Raise Literacy Achievement, the Ohio Department of Education recently wrote that districts have “a limited understanding of how to build early literacy in young children.” This is manifestly troubling, as s
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Gadfly Bites 8/1/18 – Here for Day Three
As you may have seen in media outlets both social and not, Monday’s opening of the I Promise School in Akron was quite the event.
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The erosion of teenage employment and a youth minimum wage
Since 2007, Ohio’s minimum wage has climbed from $6.85 per hour to the current rate of $8.30. Earlier this year, state Democratic leaders introduced a bill that would further accelerate minimum wage increases to $15.00 per hour by 2025.
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Gadfly Bites 7/30/18 – Their dreamlike vision
Fordham’s own Mike Petrilli and Amber Northern have an editorial published in today’s Cincinnati Enquirer, discussing the findings of the recent Charter School Deserts report and urging changes in Ohio law that could address those issues here in the Buckeye
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Gadfly Bites 7/27/18 – The gap between rhetoric and reality
As we have discussed previously, Madison Local Schools near Mansfield has been engaged in a monthslong kerfuffle with a number of district parents over implementation of a new STEM curriculum in elementary and middle schools.
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Gadfly Bites 7/25/18 – Attached at the hip
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but summer will be over sooner than you think. Don’t blame me; blame LeBron James. Because his new I Promise School in Akron opens next week!
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Recommendations for local school board members
A couple of years ago, I had the honor of interviewing for a vacancy on my local school board. Working at an education think tank, especially one that supports school choice, leads many to assume I’m not supportive of traditional public schools. They are mistaken. My three kids have all attended their neighborhood schools, and my school district is a critical part of my community.
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Gadfly Bites 7/23/18 – Singularly focused
Both Chad Aldis and Jessica Poiner are quoted in this Gongwer piece on the potential effect of new rules for dropout recovery schools, recently approved by the State Board of Education. Sounds like those effects are difficult to prognosticate, but we will likely see how they did within a year.
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Does accurate financial forecasting improve student achievement?
Death, taxes, and the Browns missing the playoffs are just about the only predictable things on this earth. But far greater uncertainty exists in other aspects of life, including matters of school finance. A new paper by Stéphane Lavertu and Travis St.
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Gadfly Bites 7/20/18 – “This is our money.”
If, many months ago when we were discussing the interdistrict open enrollment situation in Liberty Local Schools, you were asking yourself how it was possible for a district to enact a policy barring white students from utilizing open enrollment to leave Liberty
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Gadfly Bites 7/18/18 - A load of old mugwort if you ask me
What’s up in Dayton? Awesomeness, that’s what. Just take a look. First up, a change in bell schedules for nearly every school building in the district is on tap for the new school year. Awesome.