Education Gadfly Show #850: 2022’s most important education stories, with Marc Porter Magee

<p>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 <a href='https://50can.org/about-us/staff/marc-porter-magee/'>Marc Porter Magee</a>. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber counts down the year’s top academic studies on education. <br/><br/><b>Recommended content:</b></p><ul><li>“Nation’s Report Card shows largest drops ever recorded in 4th and 8th grade math” —<a href='https://www.the74million.org/article/nations-report-card-shows-largest-drops-ever-recorded-in-4th-and-8th-grade-math/'>The 74</a></li><li>“Gov. Bill Lee unveils new school funding formula aimed at focusing money directly on students” —<a href='https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/education/2022/02/24/tennessee-governor-bill-lee-unveils-new-school-funding-formula/6899796001/'>Tennessean</a></li><li>“Arizona’s school choice revolution” —<a href='https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/arizonas-school-choice-revolution'>Washington Examiner</a></li><li>Emily Hanford’s podcast series, <em>Sold a Story </em>—<a href='https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/'>American Public Media</a></li></ul><p><b>Amber’s top five studies of the year:</b></p><ul><li><b>5.</b> Paul T. von Hippel and Ana P. Cañedo, “<a href='https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3102/00028312211061410'>Is Kindergarten Ability Group Placement Biased? New Data, New Methods, New Answers</a>,” <em>American Educational Research Journal </em>(2021).</li><li><b>4.</b> Owen Thompson, “<a href='https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w29546/w29546.pdf'>Gifted &amp; Talented Programs and Racial Segregation</a>” NBER Working Paper #29546 (December 2021).</li><li><b>3.</b> Rune Vammen Lesner, Anna Piil Damm, Preben Bertelsen, and Mads Uffe Pedersen, “<a href='https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S0272775722000188?token=0F1E8CC438DA8EE09E0EED69BEB1DF4D96E84B77738315581F719A25BDFED579180A0AA45F74FA39985FBCEDE8E68C2D&amp;originRegion=us-east-1&amp;originCreation=202203