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Gadfly Bites 8/30/23—Who’s zoomin’ who?
Contract talks are to resume in Youngstown this afternoon.
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Gadfly Bites 8/28/23—No bueno
Back from a little vacation. Sorry (for you) that’s it’s over!
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Accountability & Testing
Are students more likely to cheat on unproctored online exams?
When classes moved abruptly online at Iowa State University in March 2020 as part of Covid-mitigation actions statewide, psychology professor Jason Chan expected big changes in student behavior. Specifically, he worried about his students being easily able to cheat on unproctored online exams.
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Governance
Lawmakers shouldn’t give up on a Direct Admissions program
The recently completed state budget includes historic education provisions that could have a tremendous impact on students and families.
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Gadfly Bites 8/21/23—Saturday School
A busier-than-usual weekend in a couple of northeast Ohio hotspots, it seems.
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Gadfly Bites 8/18/23—Cultivating fear
There’s not a whole lot about actual teaching and learning involved in this
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Curriculum & Instruction
Seven ways state leaders can rigorously implement the science of reading in Ohio
With the ink dry on a historic state budget, attention now turns to implementing various components of the legislation.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 8/16/23—The Devil Wears Casetify
It’s always something, isn’t it? This year’s new favorite “kids can’t learn if…” boogieman is cellphones.
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Charter Schools
A tiny provision in the budget could have a big positive impact on Ohio students who exercise school choice
Between expanded voucher eligibility, funding increases for charter schools,
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 8/14/23—Can he fix it?
As we have previously established, Dayton City Schools’ new interim superintendent is in full Bob the Builder mode, moving at warp speed to tackle literally anything he deems in need of fixing in his district, starting at
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Gadfly Bites 8/9/23—You don’t say, padre
Some nice words for Ohio in this opinion piece written by the Senior Vice President of the Commonwealth Foundation in Pennsylvania.
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Accountability & Testing
Student acceptance of computer-adaptive testing
Computer-adaptive testing (CAT) is on the rise in K–12 schools, from Seattle to Virginia
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Accountability & Testing
An in-depth analysis of the I Promise School’s troubling academic results
In 2018, basketball superstar LeBron James opened the I Promise School (IPS) in his hometown of Akron, Ohio. IPS is a joint effort between Akron Public Schools (APS), the I Promise Network, and the LeBron James Family Foundation. It’s overseen and operated by APS, the state’s seventh largest school district.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 8/7/23—“I can’t go anywhere where somebody doesn’t stop me and say, it’s about time.”
Only one clip today, but I think it’s great that this one stands on its own…for a lot of reasons.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 8/4/23—Grizzled
There are a lot of words in this piece (nearly 2,900 of them) talking in the most negative possible terms about state takeovers of chronically-underperforming districts and schools.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 8/2/23—Spreading the Good News
This is the article that every Columbus school parent has been waiting for: Asking the question
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Governance
Mayoral control has been good for Cleveland schools
A recent headline in Education Week suggested that mayoral control is a “fading school reform.” The piece noted the impending transition to an elected school board in Chicago, as well as efforts in Boston to wrest co
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 7/31/23—What we did over summer break
Fox News and several other national entities covered the I Promise School story we talked about on Friday.
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Gadfly Bites 7/28/23—More than a school, yes. But also: Still a school.
One more post-budget story? Sure thing!
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Career & Technical Education
How Ohio helps students into tech-based internships
Since he took office in 2019, Governor DeWine has consistently prioritized work-based learning and workforce development.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 7/26/23—Best and most practical
I’m going to go out on a limb to suggest that Dr. David Lawrence has harbored the ambition to lead Dayton City Schools for quite a while now.
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Governance
A fifty-state analysis of non-district students’ access to district-provided services
Traditional district schools have become providers of many services and benefits for students. The list is nearly endless, but includes food provision (both in school and on weekends/summer break), athletics, the arts, computer and tech education, medical care, summer camps, and counseling.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 7/24/23—Beyond the Battle for the Budget
While initial responses to the state budget focused mainly on voucher expansion and third grade retention for last year’s kiddos, we’re several weeks into the new biennium now and the reality of changes to be realized on
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Curriculum & Instruction
It’s time for Ohio to dump Reading Recovery
Led by Governor DeWine, Ohio lawmakers made early literacy a big priority in the recently signed state budget bill. The legislation requires schools to use high-quality instructional materials aligned to the
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