Michael J. Petrilli Robin Lake David Griffith, Ph.D. Olivia Piontek
6.10.2020

On this week’s podcast, Robin Lake, director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education, talks with Mike Petrilli and David Griffith about how well school districts handled remote learning this spring. On the Research Minute, Olivia Piontek joins Mike and David to examine data on academic growth affects parents’ perception of school quality.

Amber's Research Minute

David M. Houston, Michael B. Henderson, Paul E. Peterson, & Martin R. West, “Status, Growth and Perceptions of School Quality,” retrieved from Annenberg Institute at Brown University (June 2020).

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Policy Priority:
High Expectations
Topics:
Accountability & Testing
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…

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Robin Lake is the director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education, part of Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College.

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, …

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Olivia Piontek was a development associate for the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, where she manages Fordham’s grants, oversees progress on and assists in strategy creation for meeting internal and external goals, and facilitates communication between Fordham staff and funders. Piontek also plays a key role in planning and managing all Fordham events. Hailing from Missouri, she earned her master’s in public affairs from the…

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