Podcast Episodes

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

Episode 992

This week, Fordham’s President Emeritus Checker Finn joins the show to unpack a troubling trend—the collapse of graduation standards—and why it matte…

10 months, 1 week ago

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

This week, we’re joined by Bryan Hassel, co-president of Public Impact, to discuss how redesigning school staffing—through models like Opportunity Cu…

10 months, 2 weeks ago

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

Episode 990

This week, Mike Petrilli flies solo to discuss New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s proposal to eliminate gifted education in the early g…

10 months, 3 weeks ago

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

Episode 989

This week, Aneesh Sohoni, CEO of Teach for America, joins The Education Gadfly Show to discuss TFA’s impact in the classroom and beyond, why teaching…

11 months ago

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

Episode 988

This week, Fordham’s president emeritus Checker Finn and Laura Hamilton of the Center for Assessment join us for a polite debate on whether school qu…

11 months, 1 week ago

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

Episode 987

This week, Chandler Fritz, author of Harper’s Magazine’s cover story The Homemade Scholar, shares what he discovered when teaching in an ESA-funded m…

11 months, 2 weeks ago

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

Episode 986

This week, Mike Petrilli digs into the latest NAEP results—and explores whether the rise of smartphones and social media might help explain them. It’…

11 months, 3 weeks ago

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

Episode 985

Ashley Jochim, principal at the Center on Reinventing Public Education and mom of four, joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith on the Education Gadfl…

11 months, 4 weeks ago

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

Mike McShane, Director of National Research for EdChoice, joins us on the Education Gadfly Show to debate tradeoffs when it comes to regulation and i…

1 year ago

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

Episode 983

ERS president and managing partner Jonathan Travers joins Mike Petrilli on The Education Gadfly Show to talk about school district budgeting during u…

1 year ago

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