Gadfly Bites 9/16/20 – “A bad time to be measuring districts.”
“I just think it’s not a terribly appropriate time to be [measuring districts].
“I just think it’s not a terribly appropriate time to be [measuring districts].
Ohio legislators recently introduced Senate Bill 358, which proposes to cancel all state testing scheduled for spring 2021, suspend report cards for the 2020–21 and 2021–22 school years, and extend so-called “safe harbor” provisions that shield sch
I’m not sure this piece reads as entirely objective journalism, but perhaps that’s because it is unusual to see
The Dispatch editorial board giveth… (Columbus Dispatch, 9/10/20) …and
Charters closing gaps for Black and low-income students
Here’s a look at how schools in Montgomery County say they will address “the Covid slide” among their students.
We have heard a bit about school districts having trouble accessing enough laptops fo
Pretty darn quiet around here these days. To wit: we have just one clip for today.
In late July, the Democratic Party released a policy platform that included stances on a variety of issues, including education.
Arnold Glass and Mengxue Kang, psychology researchers at Rutgers-New Brunswick’s School of Arts and Sciences, are conducting an ongoing study using technology to monitor college students’ academic performance and to assess the effects of new instructional technologies on that performance.
We’ll start this week with another one of those detailed looks at the school choices being made by parents to get the best education for their children in light of
From an unlikely source comes this fantastic and very thorough look at families exercising school choice in response to the realities of a pandemic-influenced 2020-2021 s
The Cincinnati Enquirer recently published a deeply flawed and misleading “analysis” of the EdChoice scholarship (a.k.a. voucher) program.
We’re back on the clips beat from our Monday break. Lots to catch up on, so let’s go.
We’ll start today with one of the more bizarre stories to come down the pike in a while.
At sea, but not at sea
Back at the end of July, we talked about a Cincinnati area doctor who said that face shields were the best for ensuring safe in-person teaching. Especially these ones he designed back in the SARS era.
We start this week with a follow up from Friday’s Bites.
2020 has brought no shortage of headlines—and many of them aren’t exactly heartwarming. Education is no exception.
Starting the new school year early
I could be the teensiest bit biased here, but this is my favorite of the school reopening plans I have read about so far.
Fordham’s Chad Aldis is quoted in this coverage of a new report aimed at providing a roadmap for Ohio to increase the percentage of adults who have completed a postsecondary ce
As of spring 2019, sixteen states have enacted laws requiring schools to hold back students when they fail to read proficiently by the end of third grade.
A new school year typically brings a fresh outlook and new hope.
The pandemic has been a stark reminder of the importance of educational attainment in uncertain times.
Today, the Complete to Compete Ohio Coalition—a group of more than forty education, community, and business organizations—released a comprehensive action plan to increase the number of Ohioans who earn postsecondary cred
All y’all know that we love positive charter school stories here at the Bites.
Following Wednesday’s voting/territory transfer story, we return you to