Michael J. Petrilli John Bailey David Griffith, Ph.D. Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.
9.16.2021
 

On this week’s podcast, John Bailey, nonresident senior fellow at AEI, joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss how students’ transition back into classrooms is going in the face of the Delta variant and battles over vaccine, mask, and quarantine policies. On the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines the unique characteristics of gifted programs.

And check out our conversation with John earlier this summer about how schools were adapting to Covid!

Amber's Research Minute

Benjamin Backes, James Cowan, and Dan Goldhaber, "What Makes for a "Gifted" Education? Exploring How Participation in Gifted Programs Affects Students' Learning Environments," CALDER Working Papers (August 2021).

Policy Priority:
High Expectations
Topics:
Governance

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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John Bailey is an advisor to the Walton Family Foundation and a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He previously served in the White House, U.S. Department of Commerce, and U.S. Department of Education.

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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