The Gadfly Daily’s week in review

The Education Gadfly / February 4, 2012

The release of The State of State Science Standards 2012 was Fordham’s biggest news this week—Checker and Kathleen discussed why it matters on Flypaper—but bloggers on the Gadfly Daily still commented on everything from the latest education studies to the future of reading instruction.

Terry Ryan and KnowledgeWorks’ Lisa Duty celebrated Digital Learning Day on Thursday by laying out what it will take to make the Buckeye State a digital learning leader in 2012 on the Ohio Gadfly Daily. On Flypaper, Checker reflected on Jack Jennings’s legacy at the Center on Education Policy and Mike wondered whether the knowledge and skills we test are really the ones needed for economic success.

On Choice Words, Adam Emerson previewed a forthcoming study that pokes a hole in the claim that school vouchers and tax credit scholarships skim only the best students from public schools. Chris Tessone explained on Stretching the School Dollar why MBAs won’t save district schools, while on Common Core Watch Kathleen Porter-Magee profiled the tension between reading strategies favored by the Common Core and those laid out in the best-selling book Teach Like a Champion.

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