On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Sofoklis Goulas, a fellow at the Brookings Institution and the Hamilton Project, joins Mike and David to discuss the Fordham report he just authored, Underachieving and Underenrolled: Chronically Low-Performing Schools in the Post-Pandemic Era. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber shares a study on the effects of Zearn Math on third through fifth grade math performance in Louisiana.
Recommended content:
- Sofoklis Goulas, Underachieving and Underenrolled: Chronically Low-Performing Schools in the Post-Pandemic Era, Thomas B. Fordham Institute (September 2024)
- “The case for closing underenrolled, low-performing schools” —Michael J. Petrilli
- “We need to prepare now for the school closures that are coming” —Tim Daly
- Shirin Hashim, Measuring the Efficacy of Zearn Math in Louisiana, AERA Open (2024)
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