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The Education Gadfly Show: Emily Oster and Noelle Ellerson Ng answer the big question: Will schools reopen this spring?

Michael J. Petrilli David Griffith Matthew P. Steinberg Noelle Ellerson Ng Emily Oster
12.17.2020
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On this week’s podcast, Noelle Ellerson Ng, associate executive director at AASA, the School Superintendents Association, and Emily Oster, Professor of Economics at Brown University, join Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss whether the vaccines will allow schools to reopen nationwide this school year. On the Research Minute, Matthew Steinberg discusses the study he and Haisheng Yang just conducted for Fordham on teacher effectiveness and improvement in charter and traditional public schools.

Amber's Research Minute

Matthew P. Steinberg and Haisheng Yang. Teacher Effectiveness and Improvement in Charter and Traditional Public Schools. Washington D.C.: Thomas B. Fordham Institute (December 2020). https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/research/teacher-effectiveness-and-improvement-charter-and-traditional-public-schools

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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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Matthew P. Steinberg, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Education Policy in the School of Education at George Mason University. He is a University Affiliate Faculty at the Schar School of Policy and Government. Dr. Steinberg is an Affiliated Researcher with the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research, an Academic…

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Noelle Ellerson Ng is the associate executive director at AASA, the School Superintendents Association.

Emily Oster is a Professor of Economics at Brown University.

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