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#941: Inside Denver’s education transformation, with Parker Baxter

Parker Baxter Michael J. Petrilli Amber M. Northern, Ph.D. David Griffith, Ph.D.
10.9.2024
 

On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Parker Baxter, Director of the Center for Education Policy Analysis at the University of Colorado, joins Mike and David to discuss his new report on the impact of Denver’s education reforms. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber shares a RAND survey on teachers’ experiences with school violence and lockdown drills.

Recommended content:

  • Parker Baxter, Anna Nicotera, David Stuit, Margot Plotz, Todd Ely, and Paul Tesk, Systemwide and Intervention-Specific Effects of Denver Public Schools’ Portfolio District Strategy on Individual Student Achievement, Thomas B. Fordham Institute (September 2024)
  • “Denver doesn’t spell doom for portfolio-style reform” —Paul T. Hill
  • “With student enrollment plummeting, which schools should be considered candidates for closure?” —Amber M. Northern and Michael J. Petrilli
  • Pauline Moore, Melissa Kay Diliberti, Brian A. Jackson, Teachers’ Experiences with School Violence and Lockdown Drills, RAND (2024)

Feedback Welcome: Have ideas for improving our podcast? Send them to Stephanie Distler at [email protected].

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Parker Baxter

Parker Baxter is Director of the Center for Education Policy Analysis (CEPA) at the University of Colorado Denver School of Public Affairs. 

President, Thomas B. Fordham Institute

Michael J. Petrilli is president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, executive editor of Education Next, editor in chief of the Education Gadfly Weekly, host of the…

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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 the National Research Director at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, where he manages or authors reports on various subjects including charter schools, …

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