Michael J. Petrilli David Griffith Amber M. Northern, Ph.D. Julia Rafal-Baer
5.22.2019
 
 

On this week’s podcast, Julia Rafal-Baer, chief operating officer at Chiefs for Change, joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss her organization’s recent report on the gender imbalances at the very top levels of educational leadership. On the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines how closing chronically underperforming schools affects neighborhood crime.

Amber’s Research Minute

Matthew P. Steinberg et al., “Schools as places of crime? Evidence from closing chronically underperforming schools,” Regional Science and Urban Economics (July 2019).

Topics:
Governance

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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Julia Rafal-Baer is chief operating officer at Chiefs for Change.

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