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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Podcasts:
Brandon’s first podcast features Common Core for Kindergarteners, America’s new aristocracy, Tennessee’s preposterous teacher evaluations, and the benefits of acceleration.
Obama's budget, a bad book about testing, differentiation difficulties, and the high cost of empty buildings
Obama’s budget, a bad book about testing, differentiation difficulties, and the high cost of empty buildings.
Student achievement in single-parent homes, Denver’s rising public school enrollment, top-down accountability problems, and private schools of choice.
Student achievement in single-parent homes, Denver’s public school enrollment, top-down accountability, and private schools of choice.
Jeb Bush, Arizona’s citizenship test, the State of the Union Address, and the SAT scores of teachers.
Jeb Bush, Arizona’s citizenship test, the State of the Union Address, and the SAT scores of teachers.
Cellphones in schools, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, universal community college, and charters without lotteries.
Cellphones in schools, ESEA, universal community college, and charters without lotteries.
NCLB reauthorization, curriculum reform, the Common Core’s quintessence, and the impact of youth employment programs.
NCLB reauthorization, curriculum reform, the Common Core’s quintessence, and the impact of youth employment programs.
John King’s tenure in New York, more ESEA reauthorization efforts, and the big stories of 2014.
The importance of vocabulary, ESEA reauthorization efforts, school discipline, and how school environment affects teacher effectiveness.
Upward mobility, IB’s career-ready program, Pittsburgh school district’s teachers union fight, and peer pressure
The Ferguson grand jury decision, pre-K for disadvantaged kids, school discipline, and summer reading programs.
