All Episodes

The accountability vibe shift | Episode 1025 of The Education Gadfly Show

Beyond fireworks: America 250 and civic renewal | Episode 1024 of The Education Gadfly Show

Can Uncle Sam help kids read? | Episode 1023 of The Education Gadfly Show

Better NAEP news than you think | Episode 1022 of The Education Gadfly Show

Closures, mergers, and charter growth | Episode 1021 of The Education Gadfly Show

Only pennies for advanced learners | Episode 1020 of The Education Gadfly Show

The state of teacher union power | Episode 1019 of The Education Gadfly Show

Should blue states opt into Trump’s education tax credit? | Episode 1018 of The Education Gadfly Show

Can Arkansas make teaching great again? | Episode 1017 of The Education Gadfly Show

From schools to systems: Rethinking improvement | Episode 1016 of The Education Gadfly Show

A Science of Reading reality check: Not there yet | Episode 1015 of The Education Gadfly Show

The “genome” of a great elementary school | Episode 1014 of The Education Gadfly Show

College or career? The credential tradeoff | Episode 1013 of The Education Gadfly Show

AI in schools: Promise or pitfall? | Episode 1012 of The Education Gadfly Show

Too many A’s, not enough honesty? | Episode 1011 of The Education Gadfly Show

Can we agree on teacher diversity? | Episode 1010 of The Education Gadfly Show

Can schools keep up with AI? | Episode 1009 of The Education Gadfly Show

What the fadeout effect means for testing, accountability, and school choice | Episode 1008 of The Education Gadfly Show

When state curriculum lists go bad | Episode 1007 of The Education Gadfly Show

Mike gives easy A’s a big ole F | Episode 1006 of The Education Gadfly Show

Can states build coherent early childhood systems? | Episode 1005 of The Education Gadfly Show

Success stories shouldn’t be a secret | Episode 1004 of The Education Gadfly Show

National School Choice Week: Why “school choice” matters—and where ESAs fit | Episode 1003 of The Education Gadfly Show

Education Savings Accounts: Boffo or bonkers? | Episode 1002 of The Education Gadfly Show

Is tutoring the next big thing? | Episode 1001 of The Education Gadfly Show

An Education State of the Union | Episode 1000 of The Education Gadfly Show

The good, the bad, and the best research of 2025 | Episode 999 of The Education Gadfly Show

Is the “college enrollment crisis” a myth? | Episode 998 of The Education Gadfly Show

Moving from science of reading laws to science of reading success | Episode 996 of The Education Gadfly Show

How AI is reshaping what kids need to learn | Episode 995 of The Education Gadfly Show

What’s at stake if federal oversight of IDEA weakens? | Episode 994 of The Education Gadfly Show

The leaky college pipeline for high-achieving, low-income students | Episode 993 of The Education Gadfly Show

The collapse of graduation standards | Episode 992 of The Education Gadfly Show

Redesigning school staffing for student success | Episode 991 of The Education Gadfly Show

How the Left can learn to love gifted education | Episode 990 of The Education Gadfly Show

TFA, Gen-Z, and AI | Episode 989 of The Education Gadfly Show

Beyond test scores: Debating how to measure school quality | Episode 988 of The Education Gadfly Show

Joyful classrooms, but zero public transparency: Inside an ESA micro-school | Episode 987 of The Education Gadfly Show

On the negative NAEP news, and the real reason screen time is hurting student learning | Episode 986 of The Education Gadfly Show

School choice, regulation, and Democrats’ defense of public schools, with Ashley Jochim | Episode 985 of The Education Gadfly Show

Innovation, regulation, and school choice, with Mike McShane | Episode 984 of The Education Gadfly Show

Managing district budgets during uncertain times, with Jonathan Travers | Episode 983 of The Education Gadfly Show

Should all state-funded schools take state standardized tests? | Episode 982 of The Education Gadfly Show

Education policy and climate change | Episode 981 of The Education Gadfly Show

#980: Can education reform help Democrats win again? with Ben Austin

#979: Is too much democracy hamstringing our schools? with Vlad Kogan

#978: Mike on the mic: Regulation in school choice programs

#977: New law, new questions for school choice, with Brian Jodice

#976: A new hub for smarter education policy, with Doug Harris

#975: Mike on the mic: On “discrimination” and demagoguery

#974: The Risks of the Educational Choice for Children Act, with Jon Valant

#973: Debunking the teacher experience myth, with Linda Darling-Hammond and Anne Podolsky

#972: Indiana’s charter strategy: A red-state roadmap? with Brandon Brown

#971: A “Quality Check” on school accountability, with Tom Toch and Lynn Olson

#970: Big moves in the Lone Star state: ESAs come to Texas, with Genevieve Collins

#969: Charters, church, and the Court with Starlee Coleman

#968: Are school inspections the accountability tool we’ve overlooked? with Erik Robelen

#967: Mississippi’s secret? Twenty years of persistence and progress, with Rachel Canter

#966: Is calculus king? Rethinking math pathways, with Matt Giani

#965: Understanding ESSA Waivers, with Anne Hyslop

#964: Why states should keep testing, with Scott Marion

#963: All about the Educational Choice for Children Act, with Jim Blew

#962: Replacing DEI with something better, with Richard Kahlenberg

#961: How “No Excuses” charter schools went off the rails, with Steven Wilson

#960: Why Secretary McMahon shouldn’t waive federal testing requirements, with Charles Barone

#959: Are GPAs the key to measuring school quality? with Jing Liu and Seth Gershenson

#958: Louisiana’s NAEP gains and the power of a strong curriculum, with John White

#957: DOGE, IES, and the future of education research

#956: How schools can manage deportation fears, with Delia Pompa

#955: Critical race theory: The student perspective with Brian Kisida

#954: Should America prioritize its struggling students? with Tim Daly

#953: From Biden to Trump: Rank punditry, with Rick Hess

#952: Unpacking the impact of Wisconsin's Act 10 on teacher pay, with Barbara Biasi

#951: The future of federal education policy under Trump, with Alyson Klein

#950: The best and worst of ed reform in 2024, with Checker Finn

#949: Building positive school cultures, with Philip K. Howard

#948: School choice setbacks: Interpreting the referenda losses with Colleen Hroncich

#947: MCAS no more: High school in the post-exit-exam era, with Jim Peyser

#946: Is there hope for education reform after the election? with Dale Chu

#945: What happened when Tennessee colleges dropped remedial courses, with Jill Barshay

#944: More equitable advanced education programs, with Brandon Wright

#943: How 20,000 parents view educational opportunity in America, with Marc Porter Magee

#942: The case for supply-side policies in career and technical education, with David Deming

#941: Inside Denver’s education transformation, with Parker Baxter

#940: Navigating accountability for education savings accounts, with Devon Nir

#939: What to do about underenrolled and underachieving schools? with Sofoklis Goulas

#938: The disappointing results of high-dosage tutoring, with Michael Goldstein

#937: Is universal free lunch a good idea? with Paul Bruno

#936: How socioeconomic factors explain achievement gaps, with Eric Hengyu Hu and Paul L. Morgan

#935: How the charter sector can thrive under Trump or Harris, with Starlee Coleman

#934: Reducing chronic absenteeism: Building trust versus getting tough, with Kelly James

#933 The nuts and bolts of banning cellphones in schools, with Othiniel Mahone

#932: Yes, AP exams are getting easier, with Checker Finn

#931: No, school closures aren’t racist, with Vlad Kogan

#930: What Vance and Harris mean for federal education policy, with Dale Chu

#929: Equity and school closures, with Francis Pearman

#928: Why the pandemic toddlers are struggling in school, with Kristen Huff

#927: How to shrink schools and school districts as enrollment declines, with Marguerite Roza

#926: What “Young Sheldon” teaches about parenting, with Alina Adams

#925: We need more curriculum oversight, with Robert Pondiscio

#924: How presidents polarize education debates, with David Houston

#923: Debating school funding inequities, with Alex Spurrier

#922: Redesigning high school diplomas, with Dr. Katie Jenner

#921: Rethinking reading comprehension instruction, with Daniel Buck

#920: Integration and charter schools, with Brian Kisida

#919: Why we should teach the history of human progress, with Marian Tupy

#918: The broken pipeline of advanced education, with Adam Tyner

#917: The end of Chevron Deference, with Joshua Dunn

#916: The case for curriculum reform, with Robert Pondiscio

#915: Eliminating school boundaries, with Derrell Bradford

#914: A comprehensive vision for conservative education reform, with Rick Hess

#913: Advancing cross-partisan education policies, with Lorén Cox and Karen Nussle

#912: Predicting charter school success, with Adam Kho and Alex Quigley

#911: The flaws in school funding formulas, with Rebecca Sibilia

#910: Reforming Houston ISD, with Mike Miles

#909: Rethinking “equitable” grading, with Adam Tyner and Meredith Coffey

#908: The looming expiration of Covid relief funds, with Chad Aldis

#907: How to do tutoring right, with Alan Safran

#906: Does teacher licensing matter?, with Chad Aldeman

#905: Trump’s education agenda, with Lindsey Burke

#904: Residential mobility, student achievement, and charter schools, with Douglas Lauen

#903: Reducing poverty with the child tax credit, with Angela Rachidi

#902: Reforming New York’s Regents Exams, with Ray Domanico

#901: Charter schools just keep winning, with Debbie Veney

#900: The best and worst of ed reform in 2023, with Checker Finn

#899: The District of Columbia’s voucher program turns twenty, with Kara Arundel

#898: How much competition public schools face, with Jeanette Luna

#897: Addressing grade inflation, with Tim Daly

#896: The fiscal cliff and teacher layoffs, with Chad Aldeman

#895: Knowledge and the science of reading, with Natalie Wexler

#894: The victims of grade inflation, with Tim Donahue

#893: When to hold kids back, with Umut Özek and Louis Mariano

#892: A solution to teacher shortages, with Kirsten Baesler

#891: The fight for school choice in the Lone Star State, with Denisha Allen

#890: How exclusionary zoning impedes educational opportunity, with Richard Kahlenberg

#889: The trials and triumphs of charter schools over the past decade, with Nina Rees

#888: Building bridges in education reform, with Frances Messano

#887: Bringing accountability back to American education, with Checker Finn

#886: Achievement gaps among advanced students, with Adam Tyner

#885: Virtual teachers are back, with Linda Jacobson

#884: Texas takes over Houston’s schools, with William McKenzie

#883: The student behavior crisis, with Daniel Buck

#882: Defending Mississippi’s literacy gains, with Rachel Canter

#881: School choice, the science of reading, and other wins in Ohio, with Aaron Churchill

#880: Everything wrong with California’s math framework, with Tom Loveless

#879: Chatting about evidence-based chatbots, with Perpetual Baffour

#878: Our “savage inequalities” are no more, with Adam Tyner

#877: Don’t overpromise on learning loss, with Jim Peyser

#876: The chronic absenteeism crisis, and what to do about it, with Alia Wong

#875: Charter schools that help students earn college credentials, with Kevin Teasley

#874: How to build a continuum of advanced learning opportunities, with Nick Colangelo

#873: Private and charter school teachers are thriving, with Paul DiPerna

#872: The religious charter school debate, with Kathleen Porter-Magee

#871: The severity of pandemic learning loss, with Tom Kane

#870: The Great School Rethink, with Rick Hess

#869: Strong long-term outcomes for English learners in Texas charter schools, with Deven Carlson

#868: Virginia’s new history and social science standards, with Andy Rotherham

#867: How Core Knowledge schools boost students’ reading comprehension, with Robert Pondiscio

#866: The challenges of implementing through-course assessments, with Scott Marion

#865: The challenges of parenting gifted children, with Gail Post

#864: Using team teaching to improve student outcomes, with Carole Basile and Brent Maddin

#863: How charter schools affect district resources, with David Griffith and Paul Bruno

#862: The education implications of Chicago’s mayoral election, with Natalie Neris and Hal Woods

#861: The fight to lift the charter school cap in New York City, with Crystal McQueen-Taylor

#860: Social media and kids’ declining mental health, with Michael Horn

#859: Eliminating honors classes won’t advance equity, with Scott Peters

#858: The Trump and DeSantis culture war fixation, with Dale Chu

#857: The states leading the way in literacy, with Kymyona Burk and Tom Greene

#856: Why education savings accounts won’t bring educational pluralism, with Ashley Berner

#855: How states are fighting credential inflation, with Rick Hess

Education Gadfly Show #854: How districts should prepare for the coming school closures, with Tim Daly

Education Gadfly Show #853: The Supreme Court and religious charters schools, with Nicole Garnett

Education Gadfly Show #852: New Year’s resolutions for America’s schools, with Robert Pondiscio

Education Gadfly Show #851: The case for teaching writing in the age of ChatGPT, with Checker Finn

Education Gadfly Show #850: 2022’s most important education stories, with Marc Porter Magee

Education Gadfly Show #849: The success of Denver’s “portfolio”-style school reform, with Parker Baxter

Education Gadfly Show #848: Talking about “Unbundling” with Bellwether’s Julie Squire

Education Gadfly Show #847: States, snake-oil, and the science of reading, with Kymyona Burk

Education Gadfly Show #846: What do the midterm elections mean for the parents’ rights movement?

Education Gadfly Show #845: Why schools are wasting millions of dollars on ineffective online tutoring

Education Gadfly Show #844: An ode to overly-optimistic teachers, with Seth Gershenson

Education Gadfly Show #843: Halloween a week early with NAEP results in

#842: Industry-recognized credentials aren’t living up to their potential

Education Gadfly Show #841: Good news for a change: Most states appear to be spending their ESSER dollars wisely

Education Gadfly Show #840: The state of state education reform

#839: Do “for-profit” charter schools deserve their bad reputation?

#838: Was the charter sector too slow to reopen schools for in-person learning?

#837: Re-stating education: Not as modest as it sounds!

#836: How should schools handle any Covid waves this school year?

#835: The expanding partisan gap on K-12 education

#834: Whether industry-recognized credentials benefit high schoolers

#833: Are we witnessing the end of education reform?

#832: Removing barriers to the classroom in the face of a (possible) teacher shortage: Yes or no?

#831 Resurfaced: Research Deep Dive: The impact of urban charter schools

Education Gadfly Show #830: When it comes to Covid learning loss, the bleeding has stopped- 7/26/22

#829: Is there a future for standards-based reform? - 7/20/22

#828: Arizona’s expanded ESA: The big enchilada of school choice - 7/13/22

#827: The debate over “no zeroes” grading policies

#826: Research Deep Dive: What we know about gifted education - 6/30/22

#825: Learning loss may get worse before it gets better - 6/23/22

#824: Dana Suskind on supporting low-income parents in their children’s early years - 6/15/2022

#823: How detrimental was remote learning? - 6/8/22

#822: Checker Finn: Why we need—and need to improve—NAEP - 6/1/22

#821: Sec. Aimee Rogstad Guidera on the state of education in Virginia - 5/24/22

#820: Social-emotional learning doesn’t have a hidden agenda - 5/18/22

#819: The pod on (pandemic) pods 5/11/22

#818: Kate Walsh on the state of teacher quality in America - 5/4/22

#817: Doug Lemov on rebuilding school culture amid a mental health epidemic - 4/27/22

#816: Want kids back in school? Make sure they feel safe. - 04/20/22

#815: Paul Hill vs. Checker Finn: Does Denver prove that portfolio districts are doomed? - 4/13/22

#814: How Biden’s proposed regulations would hurt charter schools - 4/6/22

Education Gladfly Show: The literal research minute

#813: Rick Hess and Mike Petrilli on ed reform and culture wars - 3/30/22

#812: How to follow the science to improve elementary education - 3/23/22

#811: How one district scouts for talent for its gifted programs - 3/16/22

#810: College for all or college for some? - 3/9/22

#809: Diversity, the law, and the future of selective-admission schools - 3/2/22

#808: End school mask mandates. It’s now or never - 2/23/22

#807: What are schools doing with their Covid relief dollars? - 2/16/22

#806: On school boards, curriculum controversies, and a Parents’ Bill of Rights - 02/8/22

#805: High schools didn’t get the memo that college isn’t for everyone - 02/02/22

#804: How charter schools are closing achievement gaps in metro areas - 01/26/22

#803: John Bailey on Omicron and schools - 1/20/2022

#802: Erica Green on the pandemic’s impact on high school students - 1/12/2022

#801: Grumpy New Year with Checker Finn - 1/5/22

#800: Why we need virtue education in our classrooms - 12/21/2021

#799: Build Back Better’s big impact on pre-k and child care - 12/15/21

#798: Which metro areas are accelerating student learning? - 12/08/21

#797: Why debunked reading practices continue to spread - 11/30/21

#796: What Glenn Youngkin’s election says about education politics today - 11/16/21

#795: Why we should test in K–2 - 11/10/21

#794: Universal pre-K seems imminent. Should we celebrate? - 11/4/21

#793: How D.C. increased teacher diversity and quality - 10/28/21

#792: NAEP scores were falling even before the pandemic. Was the Great Recession to blame? - 10/21/21

#791: Is this the end of gifted education in New York City? - 10/13/21

#790: Why boys flail - 10/07/21

#789: Too many lost Einsteins - 9/30/21

#788: Has the pandemic caused an exodus to charter schools? - 9/23/21

#787: How the Delta variant is impacting back-to-school season - 09/16/21

#786: Research deep dive: The impact of school voucher programs - 09/09/21

#785: Helping students fight disinformation online - 09/2/21

#784: Remote learning worked well for some students. What schools can learn from that. - 08/26/21

#783: One teacher’s call for choice and content-rich curricula - 08/19/21

#782: Whatever you do, don’t call it social and emotional learning - 08/12/21

#781: The House Democrats’ attack on charter schools - 08/04/21

#780: The state of teacher licensure - 07/28/21

#779: How districts are spending federal aid - 07/21/21

#778: The virus isn’t done with schools - 07/14/21

#777: O-H-I-O: School reform victories in the Buckeye State - 07/08/21

#776: Can curriculum reform succeed where the rest of standards-based reform failed? - 07/01/21

#775: The State of State Standards for Civics and U.S. History - 06/23/21

#774: Research Deep Dive: The impact of urban charter schools - 06/16/21

#773: Should schools offer a virtual option this fall? - 06/10/21

#772: What’s going to happen to the NAEP reading test? - 06/02/21

#771: Same old, same old: How districts are spending federal relief dollars (so far) - 05/26/21

#770: Hooray for Florida’s new school choice legislation - 05/20/21

#769: Should we break up behemoth school districts? - 05/12/21

#768: Debating Biden’s universal pre-K plan - 05/05/21

#767: The fight to get kids back in class five days a week - 04/28/21

#766: The U.S. Department of Education’s puzzling take on testing in 2021 - 04/21/21

A victory for charter school funding in Oklahoma - 04/14/21

The pandemic’s silver lining: School choice victories in statehouses nationwide - 04/07/21

Good news on instructional materials - 03/31/21

Accelerating learning post-pandemic - 03/24/21

How to get high-dosage tutoring right - 03/17/2021

Biden’s relief bill will cut child poverty in half. What’s not to like? - 03/10/21

A view from the frontlines of the reopening wars - 03/03/21

Does Biden have the right tack on school reopenings? - 02/24/21

More parents now admit that their kids have fallen behind academically. Can that awareness power a new wave of reform? - 02/17/21

Hard evidence on charter schools and district finances - 02/10/21

Federal Covid-19 stimulus, round three - 02/03/21

School Choice Week 2021 - 01/27/21

The education issues facing state legislatures in 2021 - 01/20/21

Another reason we need to test students in 2021 - 1/13/21

What does Miguel Cardona’s time in Connecticut imply about his future in Washington? - 01/06/21

Emily Oster and Noelle Ellerson Ng answer the big question: Will schools reopen this spring? - 12/16/20

Assessing Joe Biden’s early childhood plans - 12/09/20

The legacy of Lamar Alexander - 12/02/20

State budget cuts and our schools - 11/18/20

Why public education may never return to normal - 11/11/20

What the election means for education reform - 11/5/20

Coping with the costs of declining enrollments - 10/28/20

The loathsome war on exam schools - 10/21/20

Lemov and Woolway on teaching like a champion—online - 10/14/20

Reading comprehension is not a skill, and other lessons from Fordham’s latest study - 10/07/20

How to open a school safely during a pandemic - 09/30/20

How the pandemic could lead to smarter school spending - 09/23/20

How did those online summer camps go? - 09/16/20

Two years after Janus, why are teachers unions stronger than ever? - 09/09/20

The politics of school reopenings - 09/02/20

How America’s best charter schools crushed the Covid-19 challenge - 08/26/20

On Biden’s education platform - 08/19/20

What about outdoor classes this fall? - 08/12/20

Another reason for more school autonomy - 8/5/20

Should districts outsource virtual learning? - 07/29/20

NAEP’s flawed reading revamp - 07/22/20

What the coronavirus resurgence means for reopening schools - 07/15/20

Why fall testing could do more harm than good - 07/08/20

How assessment data can drive instruction this fall - 07/01/20

The case for good schools as a state constitutional right - 06/24/20

Effecting real change in America - 06/17/20

School districts failed the remote learning test - 6/10/20

The crisis’s outsized impacts on Catholic schools - 06/03/20

The link between location and income - 05/27/20

Teacher to Chief: Pathways to Education Leadership - 05/20/20

What Americans think about schools’ response to the Covid crisis - 05/13/20

A blueprint for reopening schools - 05/06/20

Schools and social distancing: Just hard, or actually impossible? - 04/29/20

The one where the pandemic turns Robert into a big softie - 04/22/20

How schools can personalize instruction when students return next fall - 04/15/20

Research Deep Dive: The impact of school closures - 04/08/20

How school districts are dealing with COVID-19 - 04/02/20

COVID-19 concerns: Special education and accountability - 03/25/20

On technocrats and culture wars - 03/11/20

Heavens to Betsy's block grant - 03/04/20

Community schools and disadvantaged families - 02/26/20

The barriers blocking students of color from challenging courses - 02/19/20

Why teachers with higher grading standards get better student outcomes - 02/12/20

Finding the right school for your child - 02/05/20

School Choice Week 2020 - 01/29/20

Research Deep Dive: School discipline reform - 01/22/20

The 2020 election and education reform - 01/15/20

The best education research studies of 2019 - 01/08/20

Why rural education matters - 12/17/19

On online curriculum materials - 12/11/19

The effects of early college programs - 12/04/19

The obstacles of evidence-based practices - 11/26/19

Are screens to blame for NAEP’s bottom falling out? - 11/20/19

The Scarcity of High-Quality Early Childhood Education - 11/13/19

NAEP 2019: It (was) the economy, stupid - 11/06/19

On education, Warren’s got a pander for that - 10/30/19

Early warning: Kindergarten readiness skills are trending downward - 10/23/19

Why the Big Easy’s big gains are over - 10/16/19

Research Deep Dive: Everything we know about effective teachers - 10/09/19

Charter schools lift all boats - 10/02/19

The meaning of Success Academy's success - 09/25/19

All about AP - 09/18/19

Parents’ role in school improvement - 09/11/19

Trends in public opinion on choice, testing, and teacher salaries - 09/04/19

Boosting student outcomes with end-of-course exams - 08/28/19

The homecoming court edition - 08/21/19

Media literacy in our schools - 08/14/19

Should all students be prepared for both college and career? - 08/07/19

Is it time to reform discipline reform? - 07/31/19

What rural Americans think about charter schools - 07/24/19

One small step for man, one giant leap for our schools? - 07/17/19

While the Democratic candidates debate the past, the future of education policy is in the hands of the states - 07/10/19

Research, practice, and the feds - 06/26/19

Getting wonky on the Democratic candidates’ education ideas - 06/19/19

Data-based decision-making is great, as long as data are not only test scores - 06/12/19

The benefits of having a same-race teacher - 06/05/19

Rural schools and the urban bleed - 05/29/19

Education leadership’s gender imbalance - 05/22/19

Can we really transform district schools? - 05/15/19

Should U.S. schools mandate foreign language instruction? - 05/08/19

Preschool for children of immigrants - 05/01/19

Searching for “deeper learning”—and not finding it - 04/24/19

Will charter opposition come for D.C.? - 04/17/19

Is Checker going soft on “social and emotional learning”? - 04/10/19

CTE and local labor markets - 04/03/19

Are schools ready for an economic downturn? - 03/27/19

Education’s philanthropic shift - 03/20/19

Richard Whitmire is all about the B.A. - 03/13/19

How KIPP-DC develops and retains teachers - 03/06/19

Philadelphia’s brotherly love between charter, district, and parochial schools - 02/27/19

Out of commission - 02/20/19

The profit motive and education - 02/13/18

Millennial parents and education reform - 02/06/19

Teacher strikes, Democrats, and ed reform - 01/30/19

The state of choice during National School Choice Week - 01/23/19

School choice’s hopeful new year - 01/16/19

Federal education policy in 2019 - 01/09/19

Educational pluralism - 12/19/18

America’s choice deserts - 12/12/18

The sad state of credit recovery - 12/05/18

How to separate the wheat from the chaff on technical credentials - 11/28/18

The end of education policy? - 11/20/18

Equity and access in American high schools - 11/14/18

Much about the midterms - 11/07/18

An #Eduween riddle: How is pre-school research like a skunk? - 10/31/18

School report cards in the ESSA era - 10/24/18

School choice for English language learners - 10/17/18

The state of school choice - 10/10/18

The consequences of grade inflation - 10/03/18

We aren't teaching kids how to read - 09/26/18

Multiple pathways in the Lone Star State - 09/19/18

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Is the IRS poised to harm school choice? - 08/29/18

How good are states’ English language arts standards? - 08/22/18

How African American children view our education system - 08/15/18

All about ed tech - 08/08/18

Golden State charter politics - 08/01/18

Education tailored to the whole child - 07/25/18

How high schools can boost college completion - 07/18/18

Does the admissions process for New York City's selective high schools need fixing? - 07/11/18

How schools can better prepare for the worst - 06/27/18

Nudge, nudge, wink, wink - 06/20/18

"Personalized pacing" would be a real revolution. Are our elementary schools ready for it?

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Halted Hoosiers - 05/16/18

Racial disparities in special education identification: The conventional wisdom is all wrong - 05/09/18

Most parents still live in Lake Wobegon - 05/02/18

O-H-I-No - 04/25/18

A better curriculum in the Bayou State - 04/18/18

Is America still a nation at risk? - 04/11/18

America’s “lost decade” of academic achievement - 04/04/18

States lead on education - 03/28/18

A conversation with 2018’s Wisest Wonks - 03/21/18

Ruminating on the Kerner Commission’s fiftieth anniversary - 03/14/18

Ed reform's past, present, and future - 03/07/18

Where is the next "education governor"? - 02/28/18

Howard Fuller on school segregation - 02/21/18

The Olympian challenges facing America's high schools - 02/14/18

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Special School Choice Week edition - 01/24/18

America does not need 3 million curricula - 01/17/18

A master class in state policymaking - 01/10/18

State policymaking in the ESSA era - 01/03/18

Are states' ESSA plans naughty or nice?

The politics of Teach For America

Three cheers for charter leaders of color

The charter schools popularity contest

Do ESSA plans deserve our thanks?

Education reform's avocado toast moment

Much ado about DeVos

Cheer up, education reformers

Reinventing Andy Smarick

The state of early childhood education

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The thing about school closures

Praise for charter teachers—for showing up to work

Is New York City vacuously filling teacher vacancies?

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State ESSA plans: Just BS, or reform's BFF?

The student engagement edition

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State ESSA plans: More than just pretty words?

The teacher diversity edition

Charters and vouchers: Two peas in a pod

In praise of ed tech

What we know about school vouchers

Congress makes a deal

Education Gadfly Show: Should schools teach the success sequence?

Forget ESSA, let's talk about ESAs!

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The Deflategate edition

The Kanye edition

The Harbaugh edition