Michael J. Petrilli Patricia Levesque David Griffith Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.
1.21.2021
 

On this week’s podcast, Patricia Levesque, chief executive officer of ExcelinEd, joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss what’s on the ed reform agenda in state legislative sessions nationwide. On the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines whether schools of choice are able to pull high-performing students from traditional public schools and push out low performers. 

Amber's Research Minute

Adam Kho, Ron Zimmer, & Andrew McEachin, “A Descriptive Analysis of Cream Skimming and Pushout in Choice versus Traditional Public Schools,” Education Finance and Policy (December 21, 2020). 

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Policy Priority:
Quality Choices
Topics:
Charter Schools
Governance

President, Thomas B. Fordham Institute

Michael J. 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…

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Patricia Levesque is the chief executive officer of ExcelinEd.

David Griffith is Associate Director of Research at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, where he manages or authors reports on various subjects including charter schools, …

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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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