On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Mike Miles, the superintendent of Houston ISD, joins Mike and David to discuss the reforms he’s implementing in the Lone Star State’s largest district. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber examines a new study of how increased learning time affects reading and math achievement.

Recommended content: 

• “Back to the future: Houston takes a page from ed reform’s recent past” —Dale Chu, Fordham Institute
• “Texas’s controversial takeover of Houston’s schools” —Daniel Buck, Fordham Institute
• Matthew Kraft and Sarah Novicoff, “Time in School: A Conceptual Framework, Synthesis of the Causal Research, and Empirical Exploration,” Annenberg Institute at Brown University (February 2024).

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