Michael J. Petrilli David Griffith Amber M. Northern, Ph.D. Susan Schaeffler
3.6.2019
 

On this week’s podcast, Susan Schaeffler, founder and CEO of KIPP DC, joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss the Capital Teaching Residency and other efforts to build an effective and sustainable teacher corps. On the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines whether targeted text messages to parents can improve literacy in pre-kindergarteners.

Amber’s Research Minute

Sonia Q. Cabell et al., “Impact of a Parent Text Messaging Program on Pre-Kindergarteners’ Literacy Development,” AERA Open (February 2019).

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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Susan Schaeffler is founder and CEO of KIPP DC.

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