#916: The case for curriculum reform, with Robert Pondiscio

On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Robert Pondiscio, a senior fellow at Fordham and the American Enterprise Institute, joins Mike and David to discuss the state of curricular reform. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber examines new data from the Institute of Education Sciences’ Condition of Education Report.

Recommended content: 

• “40 years after ‘A nation at risk,’ could curriculum reform finally move the needle on academic improvement?” —Robert Pondiscio, The 74
• “The ‘case for curriculum’ is about reducing teachers’ workload” —Robert Pondiscio, Fordham Institute
• Véronique Irwin et. al., “Report on the Condition of Education 2023,” National Center for Education Statistics (August 2023).

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