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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 fea... Read more

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#880: Everything wrong with California’s math framework, with Tom Loveless

#880: Everything wrong with California’s math framework, with Tom Loveless

On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Tom Loveless, a former senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, joins M... Read more

26 Jul 2023

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#879: Chatting about evidence-based chatbots, with Perpetual Baffour

#879: Chatting about evidence-based chatbots, with Perpetual Baffour

On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Perpetual Baffour, the research director at the Learning Agency Lab, joins... Read more

19 Jul 2023

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