Michael J. Petrilli David Griffith Amber M. Northern, Ph.D. Karen Vaites
3.4.2021
 

On this week’s podcast, education policy wonk Karen Vaites joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss her experience leading a return-to-school movement in New York City—and beyond. On the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines how the admissions policies of Boston’s exam schools affect racial diversity.

Amber's Research Minute

Melanie Rucinski and Joshua Goodman, “Racial Diversity and Measuring Merit: Evidence from Boston's Exam School Admissions,” Education Finance and Policy (February 25, 2021).

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Policy Priority:
Quality Choices
Topics:
Governance

President, Thomas B. Fordham Institute

Michael J. Petrilli is president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, executive editor of Education Next, editor in chief of the…

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David Griffith is Associate Director of Research 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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Karen Vaites is the founder of Eduvaites and a K-12 education entrepreneur.

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