On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Ray Domanico, the director of education policy at the Manhattan institute, joins Mike to discuss whether New York should eliminate the Regents Exams as high school graduation requirements. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber reviews a study investigating the trends in parental school involvement over the past two and a half decades.

Recommended content:

• “Revising graduation requirements could improve academic rigor in New York” —Ray Domanico, Education Next
• “End-of-course exams and student outcomes” —Adam Tyner and Matthew Larsen
• “The accountability conundrum” —Chester E. Finn, Jr., Fordham Institute
• Ariel Kalil, Samantha Steimle, and Rebecca Ryan, “Trends in Parents’ Time Investment at Children’s Schools During a Period of Economic Change,” AERA (April 2023).

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