The Education Gadfly Show: How to separate the wheat from the chaff on technical credentials

On this week’s podcast, Mary Alice McCarthy, a director of the Center on Education and Skills at New America, joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss how leading states like Florida are vetting thousands of technical credentials to identify the ones worth pursuing. On the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines the relationship across the globe between testing policies and student achievement.

Amber’s Research Minute

Annika B. Bergbauer et al., “Testing,” National Bureau of Economic Research (July 2018).