The Education Gadfly Show: Heavens to Betsy's block grant

Michael J. Petrilli David Griffith, Ph.D. Nina Rees Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.

3.4.2020

On this week’s podcast, Nina Rees, president and CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss the Trump administration’s proposal to block-grant the federal Charter Schools Program. On the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines whether instructors who teach several sections of the same universe course improve with repetition.

Amber's Research Minute

Harold E. Cuffe, Jan Feld, and Trevor O’Grady, “Returns to Teaching Repetition – The Effect of Short-term Teaching Experience on Student Outcomes,” Education Finance and Policy Journal (February 27, 2020).

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Policy Priority:

Quality Choices

Topics:

Charter Schools

Curriculum & Instruction

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…

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, …

Nina Rees is an education leader with vast experience in the public, private and nonprofit sectors. She is currently a Senior Fellow with the George W. Bush Institute and a consultant to several education entrepreneurs and advocacy organizations.

Amber Northern is senior vice president for research at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, where she supervises the Institute’s robust research portfolio and…