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#858: The Trump and DeSantis culture war fixation, with Dale Chu

Dale Chu Michael J. Petrilli Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.
2.22.2023
 

On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Dale Chu joins Mike Petrilli to discuss whether Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis are focusing too much on divisive culture war issues in their education platforms. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber explains how higher test scores and college aspirations affected the long-term life outcomes of Massachusetts high schoolers.

Recommended content:

  • “The GOP’s dubious ‘protect the children’ platform for 2024” —Dale Chu
  • “Trump plays catch-up with GOP rivals on fights over race and gender in schools” —Washington Post
  • “The Contradictions of Ron DeSantis” —Atlantic
  • The study that Amber reviewed on the Research Minute: Preeya P. Mbekeani et al., “Understanding High Schools’ Effects on Longer-Term Outcomes,” Annenberg Institute at Brown University (February 2023)

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Have ideas for improving our podcast? Send them to our producer Nathaniel Grossman at [email protected].

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Dale Chu is currently an independent consultant on education programs and policy. His experience includes senior positions at the Indiana and Florida Departments of Education. During his service in Indiana, Dale helped to develop and implement all of the state’s key education reform initiatives ranging from educator effectiveness and school/district accountability to collective bargaining and school choice.

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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, a Distinguished Senior Fellow for…

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Amber Northern is senior vice president for research at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, where she supervises the Institute’s robust research portfolio and…

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