#802: Erica Green on the pandemic’s impact on high school students - 1/12/2022

<p><a href='https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/resources/education-gadfly-show-802-erica-green-pandemics-impact-high-school-students'>On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast</a> (listen on <a href='https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-education-gadfly-show/id141300917'>Apple Podcasts</a> and <a href='https://open.spotify.com/show/1sXrNFbba1PWSRdxBMQRyZ'>Spotify</a>), Erica Green, national education reporter at the <em>New York Times</em>, joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss schools’ struggle to support teens’ mental health and respond to increasing misbehavior. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines a study on whether improving access to dual-enrollment courses raises participation.</p><p><b>Recommended content:</b></p><ul><li>Erica Green’s <em>New York Times</em> piece about students at Liberty High: “<a href='https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/24/us/politics/covid-school-reopening-teen-mental-health.html'>The Students Returned, but the Fallout From a Long Disruption Remained</a>”</li><li>Mike Petrilli’s thoughts on the federal response to this issue in <em>The Dispatch</em>: “<a href='https://thedispatch.com/p/now-is-not-the-time-to-meddle-in'>Now Is Not the Time to Meddle in School Disciplinary Policy</a>”</li><li>Fordham’s 2019 teacher survey on discipline policies: <a href='http://teachersondiscipline.com/'><em>Discipline Reform through the Eyes of Teachers</em></a></li><li>The study that Amber reviewed on the Research Minute: Steven W. Hemelt and Tom Swiderski, “<a href='https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/college-comes-to-high-school-participation-and-performance-in-MTjhMuq0uj'>College Comes to High School: Participation and Performance in Tennessee’s Innovative Wave of Dual-Credit Courses</a>,” Center for Education Policy Analysis (November 2021).</li></ul><p><b>Feedback welcome!</b></p><p>Have ideas or feedback on our podcast? Send them to our podcast producer Pedro Enamorado at <a href='mailto:penamorado@fordhaminstitute.org'>penamorado@fordhaminstitute.org</a>.</p><p