Amber M. Northern, Ph.D. Michael J. Petrilli Alyssa Schwenk
11.9.2016

On this week’s podcast, special guest Conor Williams of New America joins Mike Petrilli and Alyssa Schwenk to discuss the message Trump voters were sending and what a Trump Administration will mean for America’s schools. On the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines the effects of Race to the Top on school policies and student achievement.

Amber’s Research Minute

Lisa Dragoset et al., “Race to the Top: Implementation and Relationship to Student Outcomes,” Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education (October 2016).

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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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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Alyssa Schwenk is the director of external relations at the Fordham Institute, where she leads Fordham’s outreach and messaging to outside audiences, including the media, policymakers, others in the education-policy sphere, and the funding community. Alyssa started her education career at a Ward 5 D.C. charter school via Teach For America, where she learned that everything important in life can be learned in…

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