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Education Gadfly Show #842: Industry-recognized credentials aren’t living up to their potential

Michael J. Petrilli David Griffith Quentin Suffren Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.
10.18.2022
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On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Quentin Suffren, Senior Advisor of Innovation Policy for ExcelinEd, joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss industry-recognized credentials and why their impact has been muted so far. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber Northern reviews a study that examines how college graduates’ earnings are influenced by the performance of their schools’ football teams. 

Recommended content:

  • Quentin’s recent Fordham article: “Credentials matter, but pathways matter more,” September 2022, which summarized the findings from “Credentials Matter,” a website created by ExcelinEd and Burning Glass Technologies.
  • Our report on IRCs: Matt Giani, “How Attaining Industry-Recognized Credentials in High School Shapes Education and Employment Outcomes,” Thomas B. Fordham Institute (August 2022).
  • The study that Amber reviewed on the Research Minute: Monica Harber Carney, “College Football Performance, Student Earnings, and the Gender Wage Gap,” Education Finance and Policy (September 2022).

Feedback welcome!

Have ideas for improving our podcast? Send them to our podcast producers Nathaniel Grossman and Lilly Sibel at [email protected] and [email protected]

Policy Priority:
Personalized Pathways
Topics:
Evidence-Based Learning

President, Thomas B. Fordham Institute

Michael J. Petrilli is president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, executive editor of Education Next, a Distinguished Senior Fellow for…

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David Griffith is Associate Director of Research at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, where he manages or authors reports on various subjects including charter schools, …

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Quentin Suffren is chief academic officer at The Learning Institute (TLI) in Hot Springs, Arkansas. TLI provides assessment, data and curriculum services to 80 school districts (educating over 250,000 students) in Arkansas and Louisiana. At TLI, Quentin leads the curriculum and professional development teams that directly support school administrators, program coordinators and classroom teachers. Before assuming this role…

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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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