#871: The severity of pandemic learning loss, with Tom Kane

On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Tom Kane of Harvard University joins Mike Petrilli to discuss his findings from The Education Recovery Scorecard Project. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber discusses a New York City study that investigates how external principal hires and internal principal promotions affect various measures of school quality.

Recommended content:

• “Parents don’t understand how far behind their kids are in school” —Tom Kane and Sean Reardon
•  “Pandemic learning loss: The role remote education played” —New York Times
• “American schools would rather not tell parents just how badly behind their children are after the pandemic” —Fortune
• The study that Amber reviewed on the Research Minute: Marcus Winters et al., The Impact of Principal Attrition and Replacement on Indicators of School Quality, Education Finance & Policy (2023)

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