Michael J. Petrilli Amber M. Northern, Ph.D. David Griffith Dan Goldhaber
10.9.2019

On this week’s podcast, Dan Goldhaber, the director of CALDER, joins Mike Petrilli, David Griffith, and Amber Northern to discuss what rigorous research says about identifying, developing, and retaining effective teachers.

For a summary of the key questions we asked in this discussion and some of the most important studies we touched upon, please see this accompanying blogpost.

Policy Priority:
High Expectations
Standards & Accountability
Topics:
Accountability & Testing
Curriculum & Instruction
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…

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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…

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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…

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Dan Goldhaber is the director of the Center for Education Data and Research and a Professor at the University of Washington. He is also the director of the National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) and a vice-president at American Institutes of Research (AIR).

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