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Michael J. Petrilli

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President, Thomas B. Fordham Institute

Michael J. Petrilli is president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, executive editor of Education Next, and a Distinguished Senior Fellow for Education Commission of the States. An award-winning writer, he is the author of The Diverse Schools Dilemma, editor of Education for Upward Mobility, and co-editor of How to Educate an American. Petrilli has published opinion pieces in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Slate, and appears frequently on television and radio. Petrilli helped to create the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Innovation and Improvement and the Policy Innovators in Education Network. He serves on the advisory boards of the Association of American Educators, MDRC, and the National Association of Charter School Authorizers. He lives with his family in Bethesda, Maryland.

For media inquiries, please email Victoria McDougald. For all other meetings, please contact Jeff Murray.

Authored Commentary & Research

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High Expectations

The excellence gap opens early

Michael J. Petrilli 5.26.2022
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High Expectations

The excellence gap and underrepresentation at America’s most selective universities

Michael J. Petrilli 5.19.2022
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High Expectations

A better way to measure student absenteeism

Amber M. Northern, Ph.D., Michael J. Petrilli 4.14.2022
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Quality Choices

Biden Administration fails to follow the science on charter schools

Michael J. Petrilli 4.14.2022
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Test the babies

Michael J. Petrilli 4.1.2022
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High Expectations

The college readiness battle is won or lost in elementary school

Michael J. Petrilli 3.31.2022
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