The Education Gadfly Show: Another reason we need to test students in 2021 | The Thomas B. Fordham Institute

Michael J. Petrilli Eric Parsons David Griffith Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.

1.14.2021

On this week’s podcast, Eric Parsons, associate teaching professor of economics at the University of Missouri and co-author of our new report “Bridging the Covid Divide,” joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss what he and his fellow researchers learned about measuring student achievement growth in the absence of 2020 test scores. On the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines the effects of a single virtual charter school on student achievement, controlling for student mobility.

Amber's Research Minute

James D. Paul and Patrick J. Wolf, “Moving On Up? A Virtual School, Student Mobility, and Achievement,” retrieved from Annenberg Institute at Brown University (December 21, 2020).

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Policy Priority:

High Expectations

Topics:

Accountability & Testing

Mike 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, he…

Eric Parsons is an associate teaching professor in the department of economics at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2013.

David Griffith is a senior research and policy associate at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, where he helps manage a variety of projects in Fordham’s research pipeline. 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 University. Prior to joining Fordham, he worked as a staffer for Congressman Earl Blumenauer…

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…