Michael J. Petrilli Alyssa Schwenk Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.
2.1.2017

On this week's podcast, special guest Dakarai Aarons, Vice President of Strategic Communications for the Data Quality Campaign, joins Mike Petrilli and Alyssa Schwenk to discuss press coverage of Betsy DeVos. During the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines the role high schools play in graduates’ colleges and majors.

Amber’s Research Minute

Rajeev Daroli and Cory Koedel, “How high schools explain students' initial colleges and majors,” CALDER (January 2017)

 

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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Alyssa Schwenk is the director of external relations at the Fordham Institute, where she leads Fordham’s outreach and messaging to outside audiences, including the media, policymakers, others in the education-policy sphere, and the funding community. Alyssa started her education career at a Ward 5 D.C. charter school via Teach For America, where she learned that everything important in life can be learned in…

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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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