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The Education Gadfly Show #776: Can curriculum reform succeed where the rest of standards-based reform failed?

Michael J. Petrilli Morgan Polikoff David Griffith, Ph.D. Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.
7.1.2021
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On this week’s podcast, Morgan Polikoff, Associate Professor of Education at USC, joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss his new book, Beyond Standards: The Fragmentation of Education Governance and the Promise of Curriculum Reform. On the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines how the spread of universal free meals affects students’ perceptions of safety.

Amber's Research Minute

Emily Gutierrez, "The Effect of Universal Free Meals on Student Perceptions of School Climate: Evidence from New York City," retrieved from Annenberg Institute at Brown University (June 2021).

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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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Morgan Polikoff is an Associate Professor at the Rossier School of Education at USC.

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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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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