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The Education Gadfly Show Podcast

The Education Gadfly Show: Are screens to blame for NAEP’s bottom falling out?

Michael J. Petrilli David Griffith Amber M. Northern, Ph.D. Sarah Sparks
11.20.2019
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On this week’s podcast, Sarah Sparks, a reporter and data journalist for Education Week, joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to talk about the possible link between students’ screen time and reading scores. On the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines whether we learn more from failure or success and what that could mean for students.

Amber's Research Minute

Lauren Eskreis-Winkler and Ayelet Fishbach, “Not Learning From Failure—the Greatest failure of All,” Psychological Science (November 2019).

Policy Priority:
High Expectations
Topics:
Evidence-Based Learning

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…

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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…

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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…

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Sarah Sparks is a reporter and data journalist for Education Week.

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