The Education Gadfly Show: The crisis’s outsized impacts on Catholic schools | The Thomas B. Fordham Institute

Michael J. Petrilli David Griffith Amber M. Northern, Ph.D. Mike McShane

6.3.2020

On this week’s podcast, Michael McShane, the director of national research at EdChoice, joins Mike Petrilli to discuss how Catholic schools are weathering the pandemic and economic downturn and what public policy can do to help. On the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines the effects of a quarter century of school finance reforms.

Amber's Research Minute

Kenneth A. Shores, Christopher A. Candelaria, and Sarah E. Kabourek, “Spending More on the Poor? A Comprehensive Summary of State-Specific Responses to Finance Reforms from 1990-2014,” retrieved from Annenberg Institute at Brown University (May 2020).

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Policy Priority:

Quality Choices

Topics:

Private School Choice

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…

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…

Michael McShane is the director of national research at EdChoice.