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Education Gadfly Show #853: The Supreme Court and religious charters schools, with Nicole Garnett

Michael J. Petrilli Amber M. Northern, Ph.D. David Griffith, Ph.D. Nicole Garnett
1.17.2023
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On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Mike Petrilli and David Griffith talk with Nicole Garnett, a professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School, about the Supreme Court decisions that could legalize religious charter schools. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber reports on a literature review about inclusion for special education students.

Recommended content:

  • “Supreme Court Opens a Path to Religious Charter Schools” —Nicole Garnett
  • “The Education Exchange: Will Supreme Court Pave Way For Religious Charter Schools?” —Education Next
  • “Oklahoma’s Endorsement of Religious Charter Schools Could Alter Legal Landscape for Choice” —The 74
  • The study that Amber reviewed on the Research Minute: Nina T. Dalgaard et al., “The effects of inclusion on academic achievement, socioemotional development and wellbeing of children with special educational needs,” Campbell Systematic Reviews (December 2022)

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

Policy Priority:
Quality Choices
Topics:
Charter Schools

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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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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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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At Notre Dame, Garnett is a fellow of the Institute for Educational Initiatives, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, the Fitzgerald Institute for Real Estate, and the deNicola Center for Ethics and Culture. She also is the senior policy advisor for the Alliance for Catholic Education, a program engaged in a wide array of efforts to strengthen and sustain K-12 Catholic schools. From 2008-2010, she served as provost fellow at Notre Dame, and, during the Spring 2007 semester, as a visiting professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School.

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