Amber M. Northern, Ph.D. Brandon L. Wright Alyssa Schwenk David Griffith Audrey Kim
8.17.2016

On this week’s podcast, Alyssa Schwenk, Brandon Wright, and David Griffith discuss alternative teacher licensing in Utah and opt-out consequences in Florida. During the research minute, Amber Northern examines the lack of college readiness in Baltimore.

Amber's Research Minute

Rachel E. Durham, "Stocks in the Future: An Examination of Participant Outcomes in 2014-15," Baltimore Education Research Consortium (August 2016).

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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Brandon Wright is the Editorial Director of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. He is the coauthor or coeditor of three books: Failing our Brightest Kids: The Global Challenge of Educating High-Ability Students (with Chester E. Finn, Jr.), Charter Schools at 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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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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Audrey Kim

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