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The Education Gadfly Show: Why the Big Easy’s big gains are over

Michael J. Petrilli David Griffith, Ph.D. Amber M. Northern, Ph.D. Doug Harris
10.16.2019
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On this week’s podcast, Doug Harris, director of the Education Research Alliance for New Orleans, joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss the progress, and recent plateauing, of NOLA’s ed reforms. On the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines how earning college credit in high school
via AP exams affects postsecondary course-taking.

Amber's Research Minute

Oded Gurantz, "How college credit in high school impacts postsecondary course-taking: the role of AP exams," Education Finance and Policy (2019). 

Policy Priority:
Quality Choices
Topics:
Charter Schools

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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Doug Harris is the director of the Education Research Alliance for New Orleans and professor of economics at Tulane University.

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