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Education Gadfly Show #846: What do the midterm elections mean for the parents’ rights movement?

Michael J. Petrilli David Griffith Amber M. Northern, Ph.D. Virginia Gentles
11.15.2022
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On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Virginia Gentles, the director of the Education Freedom Center at the Independent Women’s Forum, joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss the results of the 2022 midterm elections and what they mean for the parents’ rights movement. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber Northern reviews a study that finds that students from under-resourced schools perform worse on computer-based tests than on traditional paper ones.

Recommended content:

  • “School Board Candidates Who Pushed ‘Parental Rights’ See Mixed Results” —Wall Street Journal
  • “Still the Ones to Beat: Teachers’ Unions and School Board Elections” —Michael Hartney
  • “DeSantis, conservatives score more Florida school board wins” —Politico
  • The study that Amber reviewed on the Research Minute: John Gordanier et al., “Pencils Down? Computerized Testing and Student Achievement,” Education Finance and Policy (Oct 2022).

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Have ideas for improving our podcast? Send them to our podcast producer Nathaniel Grossman at [email protected].

Policy Priority:
High Expectations
Topics:
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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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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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Virginia (Ginny) Gentles is the director of the Education Freedom Center at the Independent Women’s Forum. She is also a contributor to the Independent Women’s Network. Gentles is a long-time school choice advocate and former state and federal education policy leader.

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