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Education Gadfly Show #801: Grumpy New Year with Checker Finn

Michael J. Petrilli Chester E. Finn, Jr. David Griffith Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.
1.5.2022
 

On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast (listen on Apple Podcasts and Spotify), Checker Finn, Fordham’s senior fellow and president emeritus, joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss the big education issues of the past year and look ahead to 2022. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines a study showing that Black and Hispanic students are less likely to major in lucrative fields.

You can find this and every episode on all major podcast platforms, as well as share it with friends.

Recommended content:

  • Checker’s 2021 Flypaper blog posts on:
    • Teacher unions’ response to CDC guidelines for schools: “CDC school guidelines, acceleration, stimulus, and other goings-on”
    • Civics and history curricula: “Proof that it’s possible to approach civics and U.S. history in a balanced way”
    • School choice: “Charter schools at 30: Looking back, looking ahead”
  • The study that Amber reviewed on the Research Minute: Zachary Bleemer and Aashish Mehta, “College Major Restrictions and Student Stratification,” retrieved from Annenberg Institute at Brown University (December 2021).

Feedback welcome!

Have ideas or feedback on our podcast? Send them to our podcast producer Pedro Enamorado at [email protected].

Policy Priority:
High Expectations
Topics:
Accountability & Testing
ESSA
Curriculum & Instruction

Michael J. 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…

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Chester E. Finn, Jr., scholar, educator and public servant, has devoted his career to improving education in the United States. At Fordham, he is now Distinguished Senior Fellow and President Emeritus. He’s also a Senior Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution.

Finn served as Fordham’s President from 1997 to 2014, after many earlier roles in education, academe and government. From 1999 until 2002, he was John M.…

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David Griffith is the Associate Director of Research at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, where he manages or authors reports on a variety of subjects, in addition to co-hosting the Institute's weekly podcast The Education Gadfly Show. A native of Portland, Oregon, David holds a bachelor’s degree in politics and philosophy from Pomona College and a master’s degree in public policy from Georgetown…

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Amber Northern is senior vice president for research at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, where she supervises the Institute’s studies and research staff.  She has published in the areas of educational accountability, principal leadership, teacher quality, and academic standards, among others. Prior to joining Fordham, she served as senior study director at Westat. In that role, she provided evaluation services…

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