On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Adam Tyner, Fordham’s national research director, joins Mike and David to discuss his latest study on advanced education policies across the country. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber examines new research on how the decentralization of teacher accountability under the federal Every Student Succeeds Act affected student achievement.

Recommended content:

• The broken pipeline: Advanced education policies at the local level —Adam Tyner, Fordham Institute
• Building a Wider, More Diverse Pipeline of Advanced Learners —The National Working Group on Advanced Education, Fordham Institute
• “Teacher evaluation reform was very successful—on paper” —Tim Daly, Fordham Institute
• “Jayden Daniels to Commanders with No. 2 pick in NFL draft” —ESPN
• Eric A. Hanushek, Patricia Saenz-Armstrong, and Alejandra Salazar, Balancing federalism: The impact of decentralizing school accountability, National Bureau of Economic Research (April 2024).

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On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Joshua Dunn, Executive Director of the Institute of American Civics at the University of Tennessee, joins Mike and David to discuss how public schools will be affected by the end of the Chevron deference—the judicial doctrine in which courts defer to federal agencies’ reasonable interpretations of ambiguous statutes. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber examines a new paper criticizing the famous STAR class size study.

Recommended content:

• “Fishing for rules” —Joshua Dunn, Education Next
• “The case for the supreme court to overturn Chevron Deference” —Wall Street Journal
• “The Chevron deference is desperately needed” —David Martin, Washington Post
• Karun Adusumilli, Francesco Agostinelli, and Emilio Borghesan, “Heterogeneity and endogenous compliance: Implications for scaling class size interventions,” National Bureau of Economic Research (April 2024).

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On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Robert Pondiscio, a senior fellow at Fordham and the American Enterprise Institute, joins Mike and David to discuss the state of curricular reform. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber examines new data from the Institute of Education Sciences’ Condition of Education Report.

Recommended content:

• “40 years after ‘A nation at risk,’ could curriculum reform finally move the needle on academic improvement?” —Robert Pondiscio, The 74
• “The ‘case for curriculum’ is about reducing teachers’ workload” —Robert Pondiscio, Fordham Institute
• Véronique Irwin et. al., “Report on the Condition of Education 2023,” National Center for Education Statistics (August 2023).

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