Michael J. Petrilli Gregg Vanourek Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.
8.26.2020

On this week’s podcast, Gregg Vanourek joins Mike Petrilli to discuss Fordham’s new report that Gregg authored, Schooling Covid-19: Lessons from leading charter networks from their transition to remote learning. On the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines the firmly established benefits of acceleration for gifted children.

Amber's Research Minute

Brian O. Bernstein, David Lubinski, and Camilla P. Benbow, “Academic Acceleration in Gifted Youth and Fruitless Concerns Regarding Psychological Well-Being: A 35-Year Longitudinal Study,” Journal of Educational Psychology (July 2020).

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Policy Priority:
High Expectations
School Choice
Topics:
Charter Schools
Curriculum & Instruction

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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Gregg Vanourek is one of the Fordham Institute's founders and a leading expert on executive leadership development.

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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