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The Education Gadfly Show: Why public education may never return to normal

Michael J. Petrilli Paul T. Hill David Griffith, Ph.D. Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.
11.12.2020
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On this week’s podcast, Paul Hill, founder of the Center on Reinventing Public Education, joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss why, thanks to the pandemic, the politics of public schools will never be the same. On the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines the benefits of out-of-school services for disadvantaged students.

Amber's Research Minute

Sarah Komisarow, “Comprehensive Support and Student Success: Can Out of School Time Make a Difference?,” retrieved from Annenberg Institute at Brown University (September 2020).

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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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Paul T. Hill is the founder of the Center on Reinventing Public Education, and Emeritus Professor at the University of Washington Bothell.

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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