The Education Gadfly Show

Catholic schools and the Pope’s stateside visit, Bill de Blasio’s pre-K enrollment efforts, STEM education for gifted kids, and KIPP’s successful scale-up.

D.C.’s gender gap at top schools, mission statements, neighborhood school attendance boundaries, and test-based retention.

The Washington State Supreme Court's attack on charters, New York State’s Common Core review, mindfulness in education, and charter schools' impact on Georgia property values.

Education in New Orleans, school governance, Common Core-aligned assignments, and charter school openings in NYC.

Education on the campaign trail, an appetite for gifted schooling, racial opinion gaps on testing, and how teacher expectations vary by race.

An education policy summit, school integration, 2015's Education Next poll, and higher education's effect on Hispanic and black wealth.

Broke districts, alleged teacher shortages, NOLA’s ed reforms, and the market’s effect on teacher effectiveness.

AP U.S. History, teacher professional development, the myth of the overworked American kid, and math coursework’s effect on college readiness.

U.S. mathletes, career-focused charter schools, Minecraft, and the teacher quality gap.

The ESEA opt-out amendments, low-income college-goers, Nevada’s education savings accounts, and teacher pensions.

ESEA reauthorization, the teachers’ union SCOTUS case, whether character matters, and the effectiveness of first-grade math instruction.

Disparate impact, Obamacare and ESEA, union agency fees, and how academic instruction affects students’ brains.

Who actually opts out of states tests, charter schools at twenty-five, Cami Anderson’s resignation, and the effects of non-public revenue on public schools.

Student data privacy, Jeb Bush’s education record, questions about curriculum, and the positive effects of working mothers.

Common Core-aligned tests, career and technical education, liberal arts in elementary schools, and non-cognitive measures.