The Education Gadfly Show: How school districts are dealing with COVID-19 | The Thomas B. Fordham Institute

Michael J. Petrilli David Griffith Amber M. Northern, Ph.D. Robin Lake

4.2.2020

On this week’s podcast, Robin Lake, director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE), joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss district innovation in the face of country-wide school closures. On the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines whether Teach For America corps members still improve student outcomes even after a major national scale-up.

Amber's Research Minute

Melissa A. Clark and Eric Isenberg, “Do Teach for America Corps Members Still Improve Student Achievement? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial of Teach for America’s Scale-Up Effort,” Education Finance and Policy (March 3, 2020).

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Policy Priority:

High Expectations

Topics:

Teachers & School Leaders

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…

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…

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…

Robin Lake is director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE).