Gadfly Bites 4/6/22—Scraping the bottom: Plasma and PBS
Not much to talk about at all today; and what there is, well… Just take a look.
Not much to talk about at all today; and what there is, well… Just take a look.
NOTE: Today, members of the Ohio Senate’s Primary and Secondary Education Committee heard testimony on
Over the last several years, cities and states across the nation have invested enormous amounts of time, money, and energy in public and private efforts aimed at increasing postsecondary attainment. Many initiatives have focused on removing barriers like cost.
More fallout from CSP proposals
When the General Assembly adopted the Third Grade Reading Guarantee back in 2012, it was in response to research showing that reading proficiently by the end of third grade is a “make-
Passed in 2012, Ohio’s third grade reading guarantee aims to ensure that all children have the foundational literacy skills needed for success in middle school and beyond.
Hispanic students make up the largest share of charter school students nationally, but research focusing specifically on Hispanic school choosers is lacking.
Potential impacts of new CSP rules
Not much to talk about today, but at least the clip we have features my colleague Aaron Churchill talking about a topic near and dear to all of
Data guru Aaron Churchill is quoted here and some of his Fordham-produced data is cited as well on the topic of enrollment declines in Miami V
Lots of inaccurate and misleading information here, if you ask me, regarding the financial situation in Ross Local Schools.
Earlier this year, the Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy of School Funding filed a lawsuit aimed at eliminating the state’s EdChoice Scholarship Program
Almost ten years have passed since Ohio lawmakers enacted early literacy reforms that aim to ensure all children read fluently.
Trust me, none of these elected school board members in Berea are any better informed about school choice than they were before the
Don’t look now, but it seems that a number of Ohio school districts are tentatively starting to declare victory against the Covid slide in student progress and achievement.
Folks who have “tutoring” as the hoped-for winning square on their post-Covid bingo card will want to pay close attention to a recent report detailing a field experiment in virtual tutoring. A group of researchers led by Sally Sadoff of the University of California San Diego created the pilot program and tested its efficacy via a controlled experiment.
A seeming hodgepodge of clips today, but the throughline is delish. Check it out. First up is an opinion piece from a long-time columnist at the Dayton Daily News with whom I am not familiar. Perhaps he has never written about education previously?
In March of 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic was just beginning its deadly sweep across the United States, Ohio became the first state to close
While the days of multiple Columbus City Schools buildings “pivoting to remote learning” due to huge numbers of absent staff members seem to be over for now,
10,000 new charter schools needed
I am reasonably sure that some of you, my lovely readers, occasionally say to yourselves, “Gadfly Bites is being too hard on this or that media outlet; surely it is not skewing coverage of certain topics as much as our humble clips compiler thinks.” Perhaps you are correct from time to time, but piec
Unnecessarily cranky headline here, if you ask me, but a generally even-keeled story on Ohio’s so-called “backpack funding”