Podcast Episodes
Back to Search#902: Reforming New York’s Regents Exams, with Ray Domanico
Episode 902
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Ray Domanico, the director of education policy at the Manhattan institute, joins Mike to discuss whethe…
2 years, 8 months ago
#901: Charter schools just keep winning, with Debbie Veney
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Debbie Veney, a senior vice president at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, joins Mike t…
2 years, 8 months ago
#900: The best and worst of ed reform in 2023, with Checker Finn
Episode 900
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Checker Finn, Fordham’s president emeritus—and the original Education Gadfly—joins Mike and David to di…
2 years, 8 months ago
#899: The District of Columbia’s voucher program turns twenty, with Kara Arundel
Episode 899
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Kara Arundel, a senior reporter at K-12 Dive, joins Mike to discuss two decades of private school choic…
2 years, 8 months ago
#898: How much competition public schools face, with Jeanette Luna
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Jeanette Luna, a production and research associate at the Fordham Institute, joins Mike to discuss the …
2 years, 9 months ago
#897: Addressing grade inflation, with Tim Daly
Episode 897
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Tim Daly, the CEO of Ed Navigator, joins Mike to discuss the causes and harms of grade inflation—and ho…
2 years, 9 months ago
#896: The fiscal cliff and teacher layoffs, with Chad Aldeman
Episode 896
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Chad Aldeman, the founder of Read Not Guess and a columnist for The 74, joins Mike to discuss how the e…
2 years, 9 months ago
#895: Knowledge and the science of reading, with Natalie Wexler
Episode 895
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Natalie Wexler, host of the Knowledge Matters podcast, joins Mike to discuss the connection between kno…
2 years, 10 months ago
#894: The victims of grade inflation, with Tim Donahue
Episode 894
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Tim Donahue, an English teacher at the Greenwich Country Day School, joins Mike to discuss who loses wh…
2 years, 10 months ago
#893: When to hold kids back, with Umut Özek and Louis Mariano
Episode 893
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Umut Özek and Louis Mariano, researchers at the Rand Corporation, join Mike to discuss whether grade re…
2 years, 10 months ago