Michael J. Petrilli Tressa Pankovits Olivia Piontek
8.19.2020

On this week’s podcast, Tressa Pankovits, associate director of Reinventing America's Schools at the Progressive Policy Institute, joins Mike Petrilli and Olivia Piontek to discuss education platforms in the presidential election campaign. On the Research Minute, Olivia Piontek examines efforts to improve low-performing schools in the U.S.

Amber's Research Minute

Beth E. Schueler, Catherine Armstrong Asher, Katherine E. Larned, Sarah Mehrotra, & Cynthia Pollard, “Improving Low-Performing Schools: A Meta-Analysis of Impact Evaluation Studies,” retrieved from Annenberg Institute at Brown University (August 2020).

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Policy Priority:
High Expectations
Topics:
Charter Schools

Mike Petrilli is president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, executive editor of Education Next, and a Distinguished Senior Fellow for Education Commission of the States. An award-winning writer, he…

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Tressa Pankovits is associate director of the Reinventing America’s Schools Project at the Progressive Policy Institute.

Olivia Piontek is a development associate for the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, where she manages Fordham’s grants, oversees progress on and assists in strategy creation for meeting internal and external goals, and facilitates communication between Fordham staff and funders. Piontek also plays a key role in planning and managing all Fordham events. Hailing from Missouri, she earned her master’s in public affairs from the…

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