Michael Gottfried

The purpose of this project is to investigate whether participating in applied STEM career and technical education (AS-CTE) courses in high school is related to students with learning disabilities pursuing and persisting in STEM majors and/or careers. High school AS-CTE courses emphasize the practical applications of academic math and science concepts to job experiences by incorporating "hands on" quantitative reasoning, logic, and problem-solving skills. Although a significant number of stu...

Even prior to the pandemic, national data suggested that nearly 16 percent of students were chronically absent, leading to significant public concerns about students missing large numbers of school days. These rates have been exacerbated since the COVID-19 pandemic, and chronic absenteeism has increased to 30 percent in some states from the years prior to the pandemic. Given this ongoing and heightened absenteeism crisis, many different interventions have been implemented and evaluated. In t...

High-quality pre-kindergarten (pre-k) programs increase school readiness and later academic, behavioral, and social outcomes, particularly among students from minoritized and marginalized groups. However, the initial benefits of pre-k do not reliably persist as children progress through elementary school. The purpose of this project is to explore school-based pre-k and the role it plays in promoting vertical alignment and sustaining student pre-k gains on a holistic range of outcomes (e.g., ...