On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Kymyona Burk, Senior Policy Fellow at ExcelinEd, joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss what states are doing to promote the science of reading and crack down on the snake oil salespeople still peddling bogus reading programs. Then on the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines how playing video games affects children’s cognitive performance.
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#799: Build Back Better’s big impact on pre-k and child care - 12/15/21
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#796: What Glenn Youngkin’s election says about education politics today - 11/16/21
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#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
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#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
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