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Governance
Gadfly Bites 6/12/24—You ain’t seen nothing yet
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Charter Schools
Ohio charter schools after the pandemic: Are their students still learning more than they would in district schools?
One of the most routinely debated questions is whether charters provide a superior education when compared to the district alternative. Just prior to the pandemic, Fordham research showed that students attending brick-and-mortar charters in Ohio made significantly greater academic progress than their peers attending nearby district schools. Our latest research brief provides an updated analysis of brick-and-mortar charter school performance in the years after the pandemic (2021–22 and 2022–23).
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Governance
A closer look at how Ohio fared on Strada’s State Opportunity Index
Over the last few years, Ohio leaders have focused on improving education-to-workforce pathways through a variety of
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 6/10/24—Play the hits!
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 6.7.24
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 6/7/24—How to
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 6/5/24—Some good news, some bad news, and some silliness
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School Finance
Ohio’s school funding formula is hurting open enrollment
Changes to the way districts are funded when they accept open enrolled students from outside their borders threatens to shrink a popular and important public school choice program. This longstanding option must remain widely available and robust.
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Curriculum & Instruction
The impact of private schooling on students’ civic engagement
In 2023, Sarah Stitzlein—professor of education at the University of Cincinnati—asserted that “the health of our democracy in the United States depends directly on our public schools.” Her assessment summed up decades of thought and scholarship on the subjec
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Charter Schools
Digging in to the 2024 Charter School Ecosystem Rankings
The Education Freedom Institute (EFI) recently released the newest iteration of its charter ecosystem rankings, its third such effort to gauge the health of states’ charter-school sectors.
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Teachers & School Leaders
For principal apprenticeships, look to the Peace Garden State
Registered apprenticeship programs offer workers paid, on-the-job learning experience under the supervision of an experienced mentor, job-related classroom training, and the chance to earn a portable industry-recognized credential.
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Private School Choice
Gadfly Bites 6/3/24—Blurred line vibes
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 5.31.24
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 5/31/24—Maybe it IS a culture thing
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 5/29/24—If we really want to compare apples to apples…
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 5.24.24
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 5/24/24—The narrative
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School Finance
Give Ohio teachers control over their own retirement
The soap opera at the State Teachers Retirement System (STRS), the entity that manages Ohio’s teacher pensions, has made non-stop headlines of late.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 5/22/24—Ohio shows the world
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Accountability & Testing
“Teaching to the test” done right? Evidence from Austria.
“Teaching to the test” is a common pejorative term that touches on a number of hot-button education policy issues—top-down mandates to schools, shrinking curriculum, hamstringing teacher autonomy and creativity, and dampening student interest in learning to name just a few.
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Teachers & School Leaders
The A to Z of sequential bias in grading student assignments
The use of technology in education—in place before the pandemic but increased in magnitude and ubiquity since 2020—is drawing increasing scrutiny from many sides.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 5/15/24—PR time
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Curriculum & Instruction
Lessons from Columbus on early literacy
Evidence from the state’s largest school district indicates that there are some potential pitfalls facing Ohio on its road toward improved reading achievement that policymakers should keep an eye on.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Invited testimony to the House Higher Education Committee—May 14, 2024
NOTE: Today, the Ohio House Higher Education Committee invited testimony from state and national policy leaders as part of their exploratory
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School Finance
Ohio needs to fix its method for counting and funding low-income students
This is second in a series where I examine issues in K–12 education that Ohio leaders should tackle in the next biennial state budget.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 5/13/24—Funhouse mirror vibes
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 5.10.24
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 5/10/24—The learning phase
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 5/8/24—96 Tears
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Career & Technical Education
Getting career planning right
One of the hallmarks of Governor DeWine’s administration has been its emphasis on expanding and improving career pathways for students. Thus, it came as no surprise that the governor focused on this critical issue in his recent state of the state address.
