The Education Gadfly Show

A podcast by Thomas B. Fordham Institute - Wednesdays

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464 Episodes

  1. #863: How charter schools affect district resources, with David Griffith and Paul Bruno

    Published: 3/29/2023
  2. #862: The education implications of Chicago’s mayoral election, with Natalie Neris and Hal Woods

    Published: 3/22/2023
  3. #861: The fight to lift the charter school cap in New York City, with Crystal McQueen-Taylor

    Published: 3/15/2023
  4. #860: Social media and kids’ declining mental health, with Michael Horn

    Published: 3/8/2023
  5. #859: Eliminating honors classes won’t advance equity, with Scott Peters

    Published: 3/1/2023
  6. #858: The Trump and DeSantis culture war fixation, with Dale Chu

    Published: 2/22/2023
  7. #857: The states leading the way in literacy, with Kymyona Burk and Tom Greene

    Published: 2/15/2023
  8. #856: Why education savings accounts won’t bring educational pluralism, with Ashley Berner

    Published: 2/8/2023
  9. #855: How states are fighting credential inflation, with Rick Hess

    Published: 2/1/2023
  10. Education Gadfly Show #854: How districts should prepare for the coming school closures, with Tim Daly

    Published: 1/25/2023
  11. Education Gadfly Show #853: The Supreme Court and religious charters schools, with Nicole Garnett

    Published: 1/18/2023
  12. Education Gadfly Show #852: New Year’s resolutions for America’s schools, with Robert Pondiscio

    Published: 1/11/2023
  13. Education Gadfly Show #851: The case for teaching writing in the age of ChatGPT, with Checker Finn

    Published: 1/4/2023
  14. Education Gadfly Show #850: 2022’s most important education stories, with Marc Porter Magee

    Published: 12/21/2022
  15. Education Gadfly Show #849: The success of Denver’s “portfolio”-style school reform, with Parker Baxter

    Published: 12/14/2022
  16. Education Gadfly Show #848: Talking about “Unbundling” with Bellwether’s Julie Squire

    Published: 12/7/2022
  17. Education Gadfly Show #847: States, snake-oil, and the science of reading, with Kymyona Burk

    Published: 11/30/2022
  18. Education Gadfly Show #846: What do the midterm elections mean for the parents’ rights movement?

    Published: 11/16/2022
  19. Education Gadfly Show #845: Why schools are wasting millions of dollars on ineffective online tutoring

    Published: 11/9/2022
  20. Education Gadfly Show #844: An ode to overly-optimistic teachers, with Seth Gershenson

    Published: 11/1/2022

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For more than 15 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. For questions or comments on the podcast, contact its producer, Pedro Enamorado, at [email protected].