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#859: Eliminating honors classes won’t advance equity, with Scott Peters

Scott Peters Michael J. Petrilli Amber M. Northern, Ph.D. David Griffith
3.1.2023
 

On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Scott Peters of NWEA joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss why eliminating honors classes and other advanced education opportunities in the name of equity is a mistake. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber examines the connection between public school choice and adult criminality.

Recommended content:

  • “How one school district is balancing excellence and equity—and another isn’t” —Brandon L. Wright
  • “To increase equity, school districts eliminate honors classes” —Wall Street Journal
  • “Parents speak out against school canceling honors classes in the name of racial equity” —New York Post
  • “One-size-fits-all education doesn’t work well, but diversity advocates are hitting the accelerator” —Real Clear Investigations
  • The study that Amber reviewed on the Research Minute: Andrew Bibler et al., “Does School Choice Increase Crime?” NBER Working Paper (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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Scott Peters is the Senior Research Scientist at the NWEA Center for School and Student Progress. He specializes in educational assessment and data use, gifted and talented student identification, equity within advanced educational opportunities, and effectiveness of educational policy. His research focuses on how schools can leverage assessment data for maximum school and student benefit. 

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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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David Griffith is Associate Director of Research at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, where he manages or authors reports on various subjects including charter schools, …

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