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Canter for the Fordham Institute’s Education Gadfly Podcast: Mississippi’s Secret? Twenty Years of Persistence and Progress

  • April 30, 2025
  • Rachel Canter

On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Rachel Canter, the founding executive director of Mississippi First and the new director of education policy at the Progressive Policy Institute, joins Mike and David to discuss what really fueled Mississippi’s dramatic gains in student achievement. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber reports on a new study examining the impact of Ohio’s EdChoice voucher program on college enrollment and graduation rates.

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