Michael J. Petrilli Victoria McDougald Amber M. Northern, Ph.D. Daniel Showalter
12.17.2019

On this week’s podcast, Daniel Showalter, associate professor of math at Eastern Mennonite University and author of Why Rural Matters, joins Mike Petrilli and Victoria McDougald to talk about the many challenges facing rural schools in America. On the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines how local labor market downturns affect college-going.

Amber's Research Minute

Andrew Foote and Michel Grosz, “The Effect of Local Labor Market Downturns on Postsecondary Enrollment and Program Choice,” Education Finance and Policy (March 19, 2019).

Policy Priority:
Quality Choices
Topics:
Curriculum & Instruction
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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Victoria McDougald is the chief of staff at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, where she manages external partnerships, leads strategic initiatives and projects, and oversees Fordham’s outreach and messaging to outside audiences, including policymakers, educators, the media, and others in the education-policy world. She previously served as Research Manager on Fordham's research team, where she helped develop and conduct…

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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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Daniel Showalter is an associate professor of math at Eastern Mennonite University and lead author of Why Rural Matters.

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