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Gadfly Bites 8/26/20 – “We know our math proficiency is going to suffer.”
We’re back on the clips beat from our Monday break. Lots to catch up on, so let’s go.
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Gadfly Bites 8/21/20 – Aim high
We’ll start today with one of the more bizarre stories to come down the pike in a while.
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Gadfly Bites 8/19/20 – Shifting
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.
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Gadfly Bites 8/17/20 – Like everyone always asks: But what about Grandview?
We start this week with a follow up from Friday’s Bites.
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Personalized Learning
In the midst of coronavirus, the I Promise School delivers some good news
2020 has brought no shortage of headlines—and many of them aren’t exactly heartwarming. Education is no exception.
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Gadfly Bites 8/14/20 – Score one for zealous local journalism
I could be the teensiest bit biased here, but this is my favorite of the school reopening plans I have read about so far.
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Gadfly Bites 8/12/20 – No time like the present
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
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The wider benefits of third grade retention laws
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.
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Remote learning this fall will be much harder
A new school year typically brings a fresh outlook and new hope.
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A call to action to increase educational attainment in Ohio
The pandemic has been a stark reminder of the importance of educational attainment in uncertain times.
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Career & Technical Education
Media statement on Complete to Compete attainment plan
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
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Gadfly Bites 8/10/20 – Is there still time for a quick call to Health and Safety?
All y’all know that we love positive charter school stories here at the Bites.
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Gadfly Bites 8/7/20 – “All we want is to keep our lives the way they were”
Following Wednesday’s voting/territory transfer story, we return you to
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Gadfly Bites 8/5/20 – Unofficially
While this is a story about the fall reopening plans for Par Excellence Academy in Newark, that is not the point I wish to focus on for the purposes of these clips.
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Gadfly Bites 8/3/20 – Celebrations
In case you were wondering, Big Walnut High School’s super spreader event in-person graduation happened as scheduled on July 25.
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Ohio partakes in the growth and diversification of charter school facilities funding
One of the starkest differences between charter and traditional district schools is in the area of facilities funding.
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School in the time of a pandemic: How two districts wrestled with reopening schools
It’s important to give Ohio school districts’ reopening plans a close look, even if they’re now void in the many locales around the state that will start the fall fully online. Eventually—hopefully sooner rather than later—this pandemic will fade, and schools will be right back in the positions they were in earlier this summer, needing to create reopening plans again.
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As schools stay shut, what will be done to support special-needs students?
With Covid-19 cases rising in Ohio and other parts of the nation, a depressing reality is starting to set in: A whole lot of schools aren’t going to open for in-person learning this fall.
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Gadfly Bites 7/31/20 – What exactly grows out of a pandemic pod?
Weeks of questions, concerns, protests, and petitions over Dayton City Schools’ disastrous transportation scheme f
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Gadfly Bites 7/29/20 – Robust disaster
We start today with what could likely end up being News of the Moot.
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Gadfly Bites 7/27/20 – How (maybe) to
In the discussion of whether and how to reopen schools in the fall, the spotlight falls (sort of) on private schools in central Ohio.
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Ohio Charter News Weekly – 7.24.20
Assessing parent satisfaction with distance learning
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In the midst of coronavirus, connectivity matters more than ever
In its recent guidance on reopening schools, the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) noted that the Covid-19 pandemic has revealed and exacerbated “deeply rooted social and educational inequities.” Sadly, that’s exactly right.
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Gadfly Bites 7/22/20 – The question of
We continue our theme of low-quality clips this week.
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