Michael J. Petrilli Amber M. Northern, Ph.D. David Griffith Doug Tuthill
5.20.2021
 

On this week’s podcast, Doug Tuthill, president of Step Up for Students, joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss the potential impact of and lessons from Florida’s new school choice expansion. On the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines how users engage with professional learning that takes place online.

Amber's Research Minute

Jane Lee, Taren Sanders, Devan Antczak, Rhiannon Parker, Michael Noetel, Philip Parker, & Chris Lonsdale, "Influences on User Engagement in Online Professional Learning: A Narrative Synthesis and Meta-Analysis," Review of Educational Research (March 9, 2021).

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Policy Priority:
Quality Choices
Topics:
Charter Schools

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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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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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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A lifelong educator and former teacher union president, Doug Tuthill is president of Step Up For Students, a state-approved nonprofit scholarship funding organization that helps administer five scholarships for Florida schoolchildren. Step Up For Students empowers families to pursue and engage in the most appropriate learning options for their children, with an emphasis on families who lack the information and financial resources to access these options.

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