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Governance
Gadfly Bites 11/4/24—Money (not) well spent
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Accountability & Testing
Keeping Ohio’s talented students in the Buckeye State should be a priority for policymakers
The Economist recently made the case that the United States economy is the envy of the world.
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 11.1.24
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 11/1/24—No follow-ups
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 10/30/24—Competition abounds
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Curriculum & Instruction
Ohio receives a federal grant to support its early literacy efforts
Last year, Ohio policymakers established a statewide science of reading initiative. And this year, that initiative is well underway.
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 10.25.24
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 10/25/24—And they would have got away with it too…
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Teachers & School Leaders
Teacher salary reforms could boost efforts to retain more early-career educators
About a month ago, I published an analysis of the starting salaries of teachers working in school districts across the Cleveland and Columbus metro areas. Strong entry-level pay is crucial as schools work to attract talented folks into the profession.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 10/23/24—Complicated calculus? Downright twisted, if you ask me
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Career & Technical Education
A closer look at Ohio’s industry-recognized credential data
Since taking office in 2019, Governor DeWine has prioritized expanding and improving
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Curriculum & Instruction
Implementation of citizen science curriculum in elementary school: A case study
The term “citizen science” refers to research in any field conducted with participation from the general public and/or amateur researchers—a way of crowd-sourcing data in more volume through observations or experiments conducted outside of a lab.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 10/21/24—Please won’t you be our neighbor?
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 10.18.24
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 10/18/24—The art and architecture of connecting the dots
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Charter Schools
Ohio’s high-quality charter funding initiative is making schools better
Under the bold leadership of Governor Mike DeWine and Lt. Governor Jon Husted, Ohio lawmakers enacted the Quality Community Schools Support Fund (QCSSF) in 2019.
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Charter Schools
Lt. Governor Jon Husted earns national honor for supporting Ohio charter schools
Today, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools and the Thomas B. Fordham Institute honored Ohio Lt. Governor Jon Husted with the 2024 Champion for Charter Schools Award.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 10/16/24—Overcomplicating things
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Charter Schools
Three takeaways from a recent education survey of Ohio parents
Fordham recently published results from a parent survey on educational opportunity in Ohio.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 10/14/24—Fecklessness
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 10.11.24
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 10/11/24—Proper
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 10/9/24—Bring on the flex, bring on the heat
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Governance
Expanding schools’ capacity for career advising should be on Ohio’s to do list
A perennial question for high schoolers is what they plan to do after they graduate. But for many students, the answer is elusive—not because they don’t care to find it, but because they lack the information and support needed to do so.
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Accountability & Testing
Pre-K programming and third grade achievement: Evidence from Wisconsin
The jury remains out regarding the true impact of pre-K enrollment on early elementary outcomes. Some research finds a positive impact, some a negative, and much of it shows the fading out of impacts by third grade or soon thereafter.
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Accountability & Testing
Kindergarten literacy data raise questions about diagnostic assessments
Author update (10/11/24): Since this piece was posted, sources have indicated Canton’s kindergarten data were misstated on its report card—a possibility acknowledged in this piece. The district's report card, as well as its elementary school report cards, now have “watermarks” flagging the data reporting error and indicating that the error may have impacted the ratings.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 10/7/24—Culture change is needed to fight the scourge(s)
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 10.4.24
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 10/4/24—Flushing out the problem
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Accountability & Testing
Has Ohio made progress narrowing achievement gaps, post-pandemic?
One of the most pressing challenges facing American education is closing achievement gaps.
