On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, we present the sixth edition of our Research Deep Dive series. Jonathan Plucker, professor at Johns Hopkins University and past president of the National Association for Gifted Children, joins Mike Petrilli to discuss how gifted education has become a hot political topic, how to identify students who need gifted services, what those services should look like, the debate over tracking versus ability grouping, and the research on exam schools. Also check out our other deep dives on teacher effectiveness, school discipline, school closures, urban charters, and school voucher programs.
Recommended studies referred to in this episode are available on the site.
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#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
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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
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