The Education Gadfly Show
Summary: For more than ten years, the Fordham Institute has been hosting a weekly podcast, The Education Gadfly Show. Each week, you’ll get lively, entertaining discussions of recent education news, usually featuring Fordham’s Mike Petrilli and David Griffith. Then the wise Amber Northern will recap a recent research study.
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- Artist: The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
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Podcasts:
Common Core–aligned curricula, cut scores, spelling bees, and the benefits of high school athletics.
Common Core-aligned tests, career and technical education, liberal arts in elementary schools, and non-cognitive measures.
Opting out, pEngageNY's ELA curriculum, career and technical education, cell phones in school, and community college support programs.
Opting out, poverty and opportunity, presidential candidates’ views on education, and the link between AP exams and college outcomes.
Standardized tests, rural education reforms, social mobility, and teacher turnover.
Ed reform’s low-hanging fruit, opting out, a grim view of American education, and the academic achievement of voucher students.
The end of federal teacher evaluation mandates, the House overreaches on student privacy, NCTQ’s teacher prep review, and college interruptions. Featuring a guest appearance by NCTQ's Kate Walsh.
Atlanta cheating, Eva’s Success Academies, poverty and brain science, and measuring Common Core’s effects.
A new podcast from This American Think Tank investigates the mystery: Who's @thnkscommoncore?
Pearson’s snooping, ESEA reauthorization, college-for-all, and Chicago school discipline. Featuring a guest appearance by Bellwether’s Anne Hyslop.
“Failing” schools, data privacy, teacher evaluation in Virginia, and a flawed look at school funding disparities. Featuring a guest appearance by the Data Quality Campaign's Paige Kowalski.
Single parenthood and ed reform, moral truths and the Common Core, and Republicans’ federal education policy paradox.
ESEA reauthorization, the op-out movement, Indiana vouchers, and college access. Featuring a guest appearance by the Cato Institute’s Neal McCluskey.
ESEA and school finance, college degrees and U.S. presidents, Illinois pension reform, and what works in gifted education. Featuring a guest appearance by EdBuild's Rebecca Sibilia.
Common Core in the suburbs, the highest high school graduation rate ever, our international education gap, and a comparison of the MCAS and PARCC assessments.
