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:
New ESEA waiver guidelines, easy and inexpensive literacy boosts, Catholic schools, and helping at-risk high school students.
Mayor de Blasio’s school plan, low American math scores, the intersection of standards and charters, and school management
The midterm elections, Common Core math confusion, Joel Klein, and teacher selection tools
The testing pushback, a college boost for poor kids, adolescent readers, and school-supporting nonprofits.
The benefits of live theater, how and whether to discipline, detrimental reading tests, and relative school costs.
Civil rights, Christopher Columbus, D.C. school spending, and teacher prep.
Civil rights, Christopher Columbus, D.C. school spending, and teacher prep.
Philly’s budget woes, NCLB waiver revocations, NYC school grades, and postsecondary education for the disadvantaged
Common Core reading wars, union endorsements of convicted felons, schools that encourage patriotism, and the health of the charter movement.
Independence scotched, letting 16-year-olds vote, destructive school boards, think tank journalism, and a deep dive on instructional practices.
Mike and Dara discuss CCSS myths, noncognitive skills, and Dana Goldstein.
Michelle and Alyssa discuss the lack of male teachers, Bill Gates’s Big History Project, and rating schools with classroom grades. Amber tells us whether school superintendents are vital or irrelevant.
Mike and Alyssa discuss a Kumbaya moment in the Common Core debate, weigh the wisdom of governors suing Arne Duncan, and confirm that charter schools ought to be about choice. Amber schools us on the evolution of teacher evaluations.
Michelle and Robert applaud Secretary Duncan’s reasonableness, question a North Carolina trial judge (but have a solution), and disparage union agency fees. Amber tells us how classroom peers affect the achievement of students with special needs.
Michelle and Robert unpack New York State’s test-score results, applaud the launch of a “Consumer Reports” for Common Core textbooks, and measure the deep impact of ed-policy polls. Amber sums up the many poll results that weren’t about the CCSS.
