Michael J. Petrilli David Griffith Amber M. Northern, Ph.D. Chris Brewster
4.15.2021
 

On this week’s podcast, Chris Brewster, president of the Oklahoma Public Charter School Association, joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss how a recently settled lawsuit will boost charter school funding in the Sooner State. On the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines how math and ELA gender gaps change between childhood and young adulthood.

Amber's Research Minute

Francesca Borgonovi, Alvaro Choi, and Marco Paccagnella. "The evolution of gender gaps in numeracy and literacy between childhood and young adulthood," Economics of Education Review 82 (June 2021).

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Policy Priority:
Quality Choices
Topics:
School Finance

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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Chris Brewster is president of the Oklahoma Public Charter School Association and superintendent of Santa Fe South Charter Schools in Oklahoma City.

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