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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, Ph.D. Matthew P. Steinberg Noelle Ellerson Ng Emily Oster
12.17.2020
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
 

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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Policy Priority:
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Charter Schools
Curriculum & Instruction
Governance

President, Thomas B. Fordham Institute

Michael J. Petrilli is president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, executive editor of Education Next, editor in chief of the Education Gadfly Weekly, host of the…

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

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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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