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America’s “lost decade” of academic achievement

Michael J. Petrilli Alyssa Schwenk Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.
4.4.2018

On this week’s podcast, Hanna Skandera, former New Mexico education chief, joins Mike Petrilli and Alyssa Schwenk to discuss next week’s NAEP score release and why we’ve seen so little progress in recent years. On the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines how NCTQ’s ratings affect teacher education programs.

Amber’s Research Minute

Dan Goldhaber and Cory Koedel, “Public Accountability and Nudges: The Effect of an Information Intervention on the Responsiveness of Teacher Education Programs to External Ratings,” Calder (March 2018).

 
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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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Alyssa Schwenk was formerly the director of external relations at the Fordham Institute.

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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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