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Amanda Olberg
12.29.2010

Heads up to AT&T and Verizon: adjust your 2011 revenue projections accordingly, as advancements in technology and State Board of Education guidelines may reduce student cell phone usage.? And with the Oscars only two months away, Wall Street Journal and New York Times bloggers do their part to make sure we don't forget about ?The Lottery.?

-Amanda Olberg, Fordham Intern

Tags: Board of education

Amanda Olberg is a Research Assistant at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. She graduated from Cornell University in May 2009 with a degree in Applied Economics and Management. She spent the past year serving as an AmeriCorps VISTA at the Ithaca Youth Bureau, a local government agency in Upstate New York, and is thrilled now to have the opportunity to work at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. 

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