On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Sandi Jacobs, Principal at EdCounsel and former Senior Education Program Specialist for Reading First at the U.S. Department of Education, joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss why reading programs based on debunked science persist in schools. Her answer: It’s complicated. Educators, in part, may struggle with the idea that they’ve been teaching something incorrectly. And strong, evidence-backed replacements programs can lack hefty marketing budgets. After this discussion, on the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines a study on how dual-language education affects math and reading outcomes.
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How to open a school safely during a pandemic - 09/30/20
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Two years after Janus, why are teachers unions stronger than ever? - 09/09/20
The politics of school reopenings - 09/02/20
How America’s best charter schools crushed the Covid-19 challenge - 08/26/20
On Biden’s education platform - 08/19/20
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NAEP’s flawed reading revamp - 07/22/20
What the coronavirus resurgence means for reopening schools - 07/15/20
Why fall testing could do more harm than good - 07/08/20
How assessment data can drive instruction this fall - 07/01/20
The case for good schools as a state constitutional right - 06/24/20
Effecting real change in America - 06/17/20
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