Michael J. Petrilli David Griffith Amber M. Northern, Ph.D. Chad Aldeman
5.27.2021
 

On this week’s podcast, Chad Aldeman, policy director of the Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University, joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss the latest trends in school district spending of federal relief funds. On the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines how learning acceleration can recover learning loss.

Amber's Research Minute

TNTP and Zearn, "Accelerate, Don’t Remediate: New Evidence from Elementary Math Classrooms," (May 23, 2021).

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Policy Priority:
High Expectations
Topics:
School Finance
Governance
Teachers & School Leaders

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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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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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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Chad Aldeman is a freelance writer who served in the U.S. Department of Education during the Obama Administration. He has published reports on school accountability; school finance; and teacher compensation, evaluation, and preparation. His work has been featured in the Washington Post, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal.

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