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The Education Gadfly Show: Should U.S. schools mandate foreign language instruction?

Michael J. Petrilli David Griffith Amber M. Northern, Ph.D. William Egginton
5.8.2019
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On this week’s podcast, William Egginton, a professor of the humanities at Johns Hopkins University, joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to make the case for foreign language instruction in America’s schools. On the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines a new analysis of Career and Technical Education course-taking by AEI’s Nat Malkus.

Amber’s Research Minute

Nat Malkus, “The Evolution of Career and Technical Education 1982–2013,” American Enterprise Institute (May 2019).

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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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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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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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William Egginton is a professor of the humanities at Johns Hopkins University. He is author of The Splintering of the American Mind: Identity Politics, Inequality, and Community on Today’s College Campuses and a recent article on the New York Times entitled “Is Computer Code a Foreign Language? No. And high schools shouldn’t treat it that way.”

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