On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Checker Finn, Fordham’s president emeritus—and the original Education Gadfly—joins Mike and David to discuss the best and worst developments in education reform in 2023. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber reviews the best education research of the year.

Recommended content:

• “Standards-based reform | A Nation At Risk +40” —Michael Petrilli, Hoover Institution
• “What would another Trump term mean for education?” —Chester E. Finn, Jr., Fordham Institute
• Preeya Mbekeani, John Papay, Ann Mantil, and Richard J. Murnane, “Understanding High Schools’ Effects on Longer-Term Outcomes,” Annenberg Institute at Brown University (February 2023).

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