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Gadfly Bites 10/7/16 - Fully online preschool, anyone?
Fully online preschool, anyone? (This Week News/Canal Winchester Times, 10/5/16)
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Teachers' Labor Market Responses to Performance Evaluation Reform: Experimental Evidence from Chicago Public Schools
A multitude of research has shown that quality teaching is necessary for students’ achievement and positive labor market outcomes.
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Gadfly Bites 10/5/16 - Mohip v. Board
The perennial disaster which is student transportation in Dayton City Schools continues unabated months into the school year. Jeremy Kelly provides a maddening update. Where, I ask you humbly, is the outrage?
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How race consciousness, multiculturalism, and international travel shaped a young gifted Black girl
By Nicole M. Monteiro, Ph.D.
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The ongoing problem of chronic absenteeism
According to the most recent Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) compiled by the U.S.
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Gadfly Bites 10/3/16 - Academic distress for all requires solutions for all
Gongwer noticed the release of Fordham’s report card analysis, released last week. Thanks! Love your spiffy new website too. (Gongwer Ohio, 9/30/16)
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Gadfly Bites 9/30/16 - Is Lorain ready for a new CEO-style Academic Distress Commission?
State Supe Paolo DeMaria was in Lorain earlier this week to participate in one of the many ESSA listening events going on across the state. Maybe roundtable discussion about state-level accountability doesn’t make for good newspaper articles, or maybe there are more pressing matters in Lorain.
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Gadfly Bites 9/28/16 - The time is right to begin some "more substantial change" in Youngstown
The attendance audit about which the state education department and the state’s largest online school have been kerfuffling for the last many weeks has been completed.
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Ohio Gadfly Daily is your source for state report card news and analysis
The annual release of state report card data in Ohio evokes a flurry of reactions, and this year is no different. The third set of tests in three years, new components added to the report cards, and a precipitous decline in proficiency rates are just some of the topics making headlines.
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Gadfly Bites 9/26/16 - A new sheriff will soon be on the way to Lorain
More analysis of state report cards over the weekend, from the usual sources. The Dispatch took a look at the fairly universally low eighth grade reading results.
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Observations on the breakdown of Cleveland’s teacher pay system
We know that teacher quality is the most important in-school factor impacting student performance—and that the variation in teacher quality can be enormous, even within the same school.
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Gadfly Bites 9/23/16 - Cleveland teachers vote to reject proposed new contract
Jeremy Kelly is one of a handful of folks around Ohio who go the extra mile in analyzing report card results each year, and this year is no exception. We’ve already clipped his district-centric analysis.
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Why the excellence gap matters for civil rights
What happens to talented students from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds? American education reform has focused on students reaching minimal levels of proficiency, but it has failed to engage and support the most promising children from overlooked communities. The result is an incalculable injustice to our kids and our nation.
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Gadfly Bites 9/21/16 - First year stats for College Credit Plus are out
Chad is quoted in this brief story about the federal Charter School Program grant being released to Ohio at long last. It’s so brief that the details are somewhat muddled, but Chad is on point as always.
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Stop wasting money teaching millions of students content they already know
By Jonathan Plucker, Matthew Makel, Karen Rambo-Hernandez, Michael Matthews, and Scott Peters
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Gadfly Bites 9/19/16 - Lots of education news and opinion from Youngstown
As noted last week, lots of folks were up in arms about lower scores almost across the board for schools and districts on state report cards. Our own Aaron Churchill is quoted in this piece, laying down some reasons for the drop and what the results may mean for schools going forward.
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Gadfly Bites 9/16/16 - Report card release week in Ohio
Our own Chad Aldis was a member of the panel discussing charter schools at the Columbus Metropolitan Club forum on Wednesday of this week. First coverage of the event was from a business/politics news aggregator in New Zealand!
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Fordham Institute media statement on Ohio report cards 2015-16
School report cards offer important view of student achievement - critical that schools be given continuity moving forward
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Gadfly Bites 9/14/16 - Chad Aldis knows what he's talking about in regard to saving money
The State Auditor (that guy!) released a financial performance audit of Cincinnati City Schools earlier this week. He’s got a recommendation or two to help the district save $11 million. Our own Chad Aldis is quoted helpfully as encouraging the district to do so.
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Gadfly Bites 9/12/16 - Many online schools in Ohio seems to have similar "bugs" in their attendance trackers
As one might have expected, the kerfuffle between Ohio’s largest online school and the department of education over an attendance audit did not remain contained between those two entities.
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Gadfly Bites 9/9/16 - Mr. Trump goes to Cleveland
In case you missed it, Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump visited Cleveland yesterday and spoke at a charter school in the city. The candidate’s remarks were mainly about education plans and promises should we elect him to the top office.
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How to diversify gifted and talented programs without dismantling them
We should all know by now that the “differentiation in the regular classroom” model doesn’t work in practice.
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Gadfly Bites 9/7/16 - Mohip delivers his Academic Recovery Plan for Youngstown
The ongoing kerfuffle between Ohio’s largest online school and the Ohio Department of Education regarding the parameters of an attendance audit is not exactly on the boil at the moment. More of a medium simmer.
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Reflections on gifted education from the Olympics, part 2: What we can contribute
Throughout the recent Olympic Games, I reflected on the parallels between elite-level athletics and gifted education, and I thought how much we could learn about developing exceptional ability from what we saw during those two weeks.
