The Education Gadfly Show: Another reason for more school autonomy

David Griffith, Ph.D. Chester E. Finn, Jr. David Osborne Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.

8.5.2020

On this week’s podcast, David Osborne, director of the Reinventing America’s Schools Project at the Progressive Policy Institute, joins Checker Finn and David Griffith to talk about how schools can be given autonomy to adapt to students’ varying needs and to external events. On the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines whether standardized test feedback to parents can boost students’ math outcomes.

Amber's Research Minute

Louise Beuchert, Tine Louise Mundbjerg Eriksen, and Morten Visby Krægpøth, “The impact of standardized test feedback in math: Exploiting a natural experiment in 3rd grade,” Economics of Education Review (June 20, 2020).

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Policy Priority:

High Expectations

Personalized Pathways

Topics:

Curriculum & Instruction

Personalized Learning

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, …

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 Volker Senior Fellow at…

David Osborne, author of Reinventing America’s Schools: Creating a 21st Century Education System, Reinventing Government, and other books about modernizing our public institutions, recently retired as director of the Progressive Policy Institute’s K–12 education work.

Amber Northern is senior vice president for research at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, where she supervises the Institute’s robust research portfolio and…