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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#803: John Bailey on Omicron and schools - 1/20/2022
#802: Erica Green on the pandemic’s impact on high school students - 1/12/2022
#801: Grumpy New Year with Checker Finn - 1/5/22
#800: Why we need virtue education in our classrooms - 12/21/2021
#799: Build Back Better’s big impact on pre-k and child care - 12/15/21
#798: Which metro areas are accelerating student learning? - 12/08/21
#796: What Glenn Youngkin’s election says about education politics today - 11/16/21
#795: Why we should test in K–2 - 11/10/21
#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
#790: Why boys flail - 10/07/21
#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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