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Event
2.24.2020
Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Advanced Education, Teachers & School Leaders

WEBINAR: How to Educate an American—A conversation with Michael J. Petrilli and Chester E. Finn Jr.

America’s schools have ceded significant ground to trendy nostrums and policy cure-alls that do little to adequately teach young people the skills and knowledge required to realize their full potential and emerge from school as fully-functioning citizens. The latest round of dire NAEP civics and U.S. history scores underscore our continuing failure on the citizenship front.

Event
11.5.2019
Accountability & Testing, Curriculum & Instruction, Advanced Education, Standards

Is Advanced Placement Good for Everyone? A Discussion with Partisans and Doubters

Learning in the Fast Lane: The Past, Present, and Future of Advanced Placement (Princeton, 2019), the new book by Chester Finn and Andrew Scanlan, tells the story of the Advanced Placement (AP) program, widely regarded as the gold standard for academic rigor in American high schools.

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Podcast
9.18.2019
Curriculum & Instruction, Advanced Education

The Education Gadfly Show: All about AP

  On this week’s podcast, Mike Petrilli talks with Checker Finn and Andrew Scanlan about their new book on the past, present, and future of Advanced Placement.

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Podcast
7.17.2019
Advanced Education

The Education Gadfly Show: One small step for man, one giant leap for our schools?

On this week’s podcast, Fordham’s own Checker Finn joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss, during the week of Apollo 11’s fiftieth anniversary, how the moon landing related to American education. On the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines how restorative justice affects racial disproportionality in school discipline.

Event
12.6.2018
Accountability & Testing, Advanced Education

Education 20/20: Ian Rowe and Michael Barone

The Education 20/20 speaker series resumes on December 11th with another all-star double-header. Ian Rowe will lead off by arguing for the inclusion of family structure in measures of student achievement. Then Michael Barone will explore the educational travails—past, present, and future—of gifted students and what might be done to ease the pain.