Speaker

Founder of the Education Policy Collaborative, a forum for education policy scholars from across the United States to impact both scholarship and public policy. A nationally renowned education economist, Dr. Michael Gottfried’s work focuses on the economics of education (career ad technical education, student with disabilities, and absenteeism) and the use of economics for decision making and policy. He grapples with why we need to do things differently especially coming out of the pandemic and who can make the most change. He aims to boost academic and other student outcomes by examining which policies, practices, and contexts promote or block their success. In recent work he has examined whether new teachers are prepared to address absenteeism in their classrooms. He has also explored whether implementing new forms of school breakfast programs, such as in the classroom rather than in the cafeteria, can impact students’ absenteeism and achievement. Finally, he is studying whether students with disabilities have stronger high school and college outcomes when they take math/science career and technical education courses. As well-funded and published research scholar with support from the Institute of Education Sciences, National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Spencer Foundation, Foundation for Child Development, American Educational Research Association, and many other organizations, he sought after and called to speak to this research in presentations in on journal editing boards such as in leading journals like that of Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, American Educational Research Journal, and Teachers College Record.