The Education Gadfly Show
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 featuring Fordham’s Mike Petrilli and David Griffith. Then the wise Amber Northern will recap a recent research study. For questions or comments on the podcast, contact its producer, Stephanie Distler, at [email protected].
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 24 minutes
- Episodes
- 507
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
#866: The challenges of implementing through-course assessments, with Scott Marion
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Scott Marion of the National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss the challenges of imp…
#865: The challenges of parenting gifted children, with Gail Post
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Gail Post joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss how parents can support their gifted children and advocate for their educational needs. Then,…
#864: Using team teaching to improve student outcomes, with Carole Basile and Brent Maddin
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Carole Basile and Brent Maddin from Arizona State University join Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss how a new team-based staffing model could b…
#863: How charter schools affect district resources, with David Griffith and Paul Bruno
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, David Griffith and Paul Bruno join Mike Petrilli to discuss David’s new Think Again brief on whether charter schools drain resources from traditional pub…
#862: The education implications of Chicago’s mayoral election, with Natalie Neris and Hal Woods
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Natalie Neris and Hal Woods of Kids First Chicago join Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss what Chicago’s mayoral run-off election between Brando…
#861: The fight to lift the charter school cap in New York City, with Crystal McQueen-Taylor
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Crystal McQueen-Taylor of StudentsFirstNY joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss the battle royale to lift the charter cap in New York City. T…
#860: Social media and kids’ declining mental health, with Michael Horn
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Michael Horn joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss what schools can do to protect kids’ mental health and whether social media is making it w…
#859: Eliminating honors classes won’t advance equity, with Scott Peters
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Scott Peters of NWEA joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss why eliminating honors classes and other advanced education opportunities in the n…
#858: The Trump and DeSantis culture war fixation, with Dale Chu
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Dale Chu joins Mike Petrilli to discuss whether Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis are focusing too much on divisive culture war issues in their education pla…
#857: The states leading the way in literacy, with Kymyona Burk and Tom Greene
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Kymyona Burk and Tom Greene of ExcelinEd join Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss how Ohio, Mississippi, and other states are implementing resear…
#856: Why education savings accounts won’t bring educational pluralism, with Ashley Berner
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Ashley Berner of Johns Hopkins University tells us why education savings accounts are unlikely to lead to educational pluralism. Then, on the Research Mi…
#855: How states are fighting credential inflation, with Rick Hess
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute tells Mike Petrilli and David Griffith why we should be happy that an increasing number of states are elim…
Education Gadfly Show #854: How districts should prepare for the coming school closures, with Tim Daly
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Tim Daly of EdNavigator tells Mike Petrilli and David Griffith how districts should prepare for looming school closures. Then, on the Research Minute, Am…
Education Gadfly Show #853: The Supreme Court and religious charters schools, with Nicole Garnett
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Mike Petrilli and David Griffith talk with Nicole Garnett, a professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School, about the Supreme Court decisions that…
Education Gadfly Show #852: New Year’s resolutions for America’s schools, with Robert Pondiscio
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Mike Petrilli and David Griffith talk with Robert Pondiscio of the American Enterprise Institute about what schools should resolve to do better—and resol…
Education Gadfly Show #851: The case for teaching writing in the age of ChatGPT, with Checker Finn
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, David Griffith talks with Checker Finn about why we should still teach writing in the age of ChatGPT, a new AI-powered bot that can mimic human prose. Th…
Education Gadfly Show #850: 2022’s most important education stories, with Marc Porter Magee
On this week’s special, year-end Education Gadfly Show podcast, Mike Petrilli looks back on 2022’s most important education stories with 50CAN founder and CEO Marc Porter Magee. Then, on the Research…
Education Gadfly Show #849: The success of Denver’s “portfolio”-style school reform, with Parker Baxter
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Mike Petrilli and David Griffith talk with the University of Colorado’s Parker Baxter on how Denver’s comprehensive school reform effort led to higher st…
Education Gadfly Show #848: Talking about “Unbundling” with Bellwether’s Julie Squire
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Mike Petrilli and David Griffith talk with Juliet Squire, Senior Partner at Bellwether, about a new initiative called Assembly, which is a deep dive into…
Education Gadfly Show #847: States, snake-oil, and the science of reading, with Kymyona Burk
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Kymyona Burk, Senior Policy Fellow at ExcelinEd, joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss what states are doing to promote the science of readin…