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

<p>On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, <a href='https://www.gse.harvard.edu/faculty/thomas-kane'>Tom Kane</a> of Harvard University joins Mike Petrilli to discuss his findings from <a href='https://educationrecoveryscorecard.org/'>The Education Recovery Scorecard Project</a>. 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.</p><p> </p><p><b>Recommended content:</b></p><ul><li>“Parents don’t understand how far behind their kids are in school” —<a href='https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/05/11/opinion/pandemic-learning-losses-steep-but-not-permanent.html'>Tom Kane and Sean Reardon</a></li><li> “Pandemic learning loss: The role remote education played” —<a href='https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/28/briefing/pandemic-learning-loss.html'>New York Times</a></li><li>“American schools would rather not tell parents just how badly behind their children are after the pandemic” —<a href='https://fortune.com/2023/03/06/school-learning-loss-pandemic-children-students-struggling-parents-not-told/'>Fortune</a></li><li>The study that Amber reviewed on the Research Minute: Marcus Winters et al., <a href='https://direct.mit.edu/edfp/article-abstract/18/2/302/107416/The-Impact-of-Principal-Attrition-and-Replacement?redirectedFrom=fulltext'>The Impact of Principal Attrition and Replacement on Indicators of School Quality</a>, <em>Education Finance &amp; Policy</em> (2023)</li></ul><p><b> </b></p><p><b>Feedback Welcome:</b></p><p>Have ideas for improving our podcast? Send them to Jeanette Luna at <a href='mailto:jluna@fordhaminstitute.org'>jluna@fordhaminstitute.org</a>.</p>