The Thomas B. Fordham Institute and its affiliated Foundation promote educational excellence for every child in America via quality research, analysis, and commentary.
The Fordham-Hoover "Education 20/20" speaker series continues with our penultimate event on May 1, as we bring you another awesome duo. Rod Paige will open by arguing that tomorrow's school reform needs to focus not just on changing schools, but even more on boosting student effort. Then Pete Wehner will make a forceful, principled case for reviving old-fashioned character education in America's schools.
Fordham produces relevant, rigorous, and actionable policy research on the most important issues in K–12 education.
Fordham's education policy work focuses primarily on three areas: High Expectations, Quality Choices, and Personalized Pathways. We believe that all schools that are supported with public funds should be held accountable for helping their students make academic progress from year to year; that all parents deserve to have a range of high-quality options, as well as reliable information with which to make the best choice for their children; and that students have a variety of needs, interests, and ambitions, and that our K–12 education system ought to reflect this variety.
In our nation's capital, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute hosts a wide variety of panel discussions, book events, lectures, and other convenings that feature renowned policymakers, authors, community stakeholders, educators, and activists.