The Education Gadfly Show: How school districts are dealing with COVID-19

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

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, editor in chief of the…

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, …

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

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