Michael J. Petrilli David Griffith Tran Le Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.
7.1.2020

On this week’s podcast, Mike Petrilli, Tran Le, Amber Northern, and David Griffith discuss Fordham’s new case study on data-driven instruction in Washington, D.C. On the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines little interruptions’ big effect on classroom learning.

Amber's Research Minute

Matthew A. Kraft & Manuel Monti-Nussbaum, “The Big Problem with Little Interruptions to Classroom Learning,” retrieved from Annenberg Institute at Brown University (May 2020).

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Policy Priority:
Quality Choices
Topics:
Accountability & Testing
Curriculum & Instruction
Teachers & School Leaders

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, a Distinguished Senior Fellow for…

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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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Tran Le was a research assistant with the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and podcast producer of The Education Gadfly Show. A Texan native, she holds a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University and a M.A. in Education Policy Studies from the George Washington University. Tran's research interests include the intersection of racial, socioeconomic, and educational inequalities and school discipline. 

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

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