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The Education Gadfly Show episodes

September 09, 2015 The Deflategate edition
The Washington State Supreme Court's attack on charters, New York State’s Common Core review, mindfulness in education, and charter schools' impact on Georgia property values.
Amber's Research Minute
SOURCE: Carlianne Patrick, "Willing to Pay: Charter Schools’ Impact on Georgia Property Values," Fiscal Research Center, Georgia State University (August 2015).
18 min
September 08, 2015 The Kanye edition
Education in New Orleans, school governance, Common Core-aligned assignments, and charter school openings in NYC.
Amber's Research Minute

SOURCE: Andrew Saultz, Dan Fitzpatrick, and Rebecca Jacobsen, "Exploring the Supply Side: Factors Related to Charter School Openings in NYC," Journal of School Choice: International Research and Reform, vol. 9 no. 3 (August 2015).
20 min
September 02, 2015 The Harbaugh edition
Education on the campaign trail, an appetite for gifted schooling, racial opinion gaps on testing, and how teacher expectations vary by race.
Amber's Research Minute

SOURCE: Seth Gershenson, Stephen B. Holt, and Nicholas Papageorge, "Who Believes in Me? The Effect of Student-Teacher Demographic Match on Teacher Expectations," Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Working Paper 231 (July 2015).
22 min
September 02, 2015 The Kanye edition
Education in New Orleans, school governance, Common Core-aligned assignments, and charter school openings in NYC.
20 min
August 26, 2015 The Harbaugh edition
Education on the campaign trail, an appetite for gifted schooling, racial opinion gaps on testing, and how teacher expectations vary by race.
22 min
August 19, 2015 The Data Driven edition
An education policy summit, school integration, 2015's Education Next poll, and higher education's effect on Hispanic and black wealth.
22 min
August 12, 2015 The Donald edition
Broke districts, alleged teacher shortages, NOLA’s ed reforms, and the market’s effect on teacher effectiveness.
22 min
August 04, 2015 The Amazin’ Mets edition
AP U.S. History, teacher professional development, the myth of the overworked American kid, and math coursework’s effect on college readiness.
18 min
July 22, 2015 The mathlete edition
U.S. mathletes, career-focused charter schools, Minecraft, and the teacher quality gap.
16 min
July 15, 2015 The little people's planet edition
The ESEA opt-out amendments, low-income college-goers, Nevada’s education savings accounts, and teacher pensions.
23 min

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For more than 15 years, the Fordham Institute has been hosting a weekly podcast, The Education Gadfly Show. Each week, you’ll get lively, entertaining discussions of recent education news, usually…