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The Education Gadfly Show: Schools and social distancing: Just hard, or actually impossible?

Michael J. Petrilli David Griffith, Ph.D. Amber M. Northern, Ph.D. Noelle Ellerson Ng
4.29.2020
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On this week’s podcast, Noelle Ellerson Ng, associate executive director of advocacy and governance at AASA, the School Superintendents Association, joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss the complexities that school systems must consider when reopening schools, especially if social distancing is required. On the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines which news sources social studies teachers find credible, and how that depends on their own ideological leanings. 

Amber's Research Minute

Christopher H. Clark, Mardi Schmeichel, and H. James Garrett. "Social Studies Teacher Perceptions of News Source Credibility." Educational Researcher (March 4, 2020).

The Education Gadfly Show is available on Google Podcasts, Libsyn, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, The Podcast App, PodBean, Podbay, Chartable, Castbox, and myTuner Radio.

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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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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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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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Noelle Ellerson Ng is the associate executive director of advocacy and governance at AASA, the School Superintendents Association.

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