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Is Kindergarten the New First Grade?
The increased importance of academic and non-academic skills for our youngest learners
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If you’re not checking Ohio Gadfly Daily, you’re probably missing out
There's even more to love about the Gadfly
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Learning from Experience: A Guide to Social Impact Bond Investing
First-hand look at an early SIB experiment
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Two important upcoming events - Education for Upward Mobility and ESSA: Implications for Equity in Ohio
On Wednesday, March 23, 2016, Fordham president Mike Petrilli will be in Columbus to discuss his new book, Education for Upward Mobility. In it, more than a dozen contributors work to answer fundamental questions: How can we help children born into poverty transcend their disadvantages and enter the middle class as adults? And in particular, what role can our schools play?
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The Project L.I.F.T. Story: Early Lessons from a Public-Private Education Turnaround Initiative
First look at a focused, fully-funded turnaround effort in North Carolina
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Informing Investments in Preschool Quality and Access in Cincinnati
Return on investment for quality pre-K - what the research shows
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Teacher preparation: The complicated but important process of raising admissions standards
Addressing teacher quality issues at the source
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How to improve Ohio teacher preparation
The first round of our recommendations for fixing vital but hard-to-change area of teacher training programs
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Building a better (community) college student through remediation
Two new reports look at the "preparation gap" for community college students
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The Impact of Teacher Demographic Representation on Student Attendance and Suspensions
A topic that demands our attention—and our action
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Gadfly Bites - 2/24/16
"It costs more to graduate from [Youngstown's] East High than to graduate from college."
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Charter Schools
The Proper Perspective: An honest exchange about Ohio’s Charter School Program grant
Do Ohio's quality charter schools deserve expansion funding?