Michael Gottfried

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Michael Gottfried
Associate Professor,
University of Pennsylvania

Michael Gottfried is associate professor in the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education.  He was formerly professor in the Gevirtz School of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research focuses on absenteeism, schooling context, and STEM; an interest in disabilities informs his work, which has been published in a number of journals, including American Educational Research Journal, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Teachers College Record, Education Finance and Policy, American Journal of Education, and Elementary School Journal. Gottfried serves on the editorial boards of American Educational Research Journal and Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. He received his PhD in applied economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

updated 2020

Contributing topics
Access, quality & alignment in early childhood education
Educator workforce & effectiveness
Supporting students’ social-emotional, mental & physical health
Understanding, measuring & improving student outcomes
Contributing initiatives
COVID-19 Recovery
Organizing Schools to Serve Students with Disabilities
Commentary by Michael Gottfried
: Can Center-based Childcare Reduce the Odds of Early Chronic Absenteeism?
: The Positive Peer Effects of Classroom Diversity
: Classmates with Disabilities and Students’ Non-Cognitive Outcomes
: Retained Students and Classmates’ Absences in Urban Schools
Michael Gottfried in the Media
: In a California District, Latinx Students with Latinx Teachers Attend More School
: How Schools Can Help Children Recover from COVID Closures
: Michael Gottfried to Give Talk at UC Center Sacramento About Teacher Readiness for Educating Students with Learning Disabilities
: One Way to Improve Kindergarten Attendance: Take the School Bus
: Michael Gottfried to Present Findings on Preventing Truancy Through Policy
Publications by Michael Gottfried
Report Gottfried Feb 2020
Preparing Teachers to Educate Students with Learning Disabilities
Students with learning disabilities are spending more time in general education classrooms than at any point in history, yet there remain concerns whether general education teachers are receiving adequate preparation to support these students.…
Approaches to Reducing Chronic Absenteeism
Acknowledging the importance of students simply being in school, California has made student attendance part of its accountability system. This brief covers a session in which it was pointed out that using chronic absenteeism as an…
Addressing Absenteeism
Lessons for Policy and Practice
Addressing student absenteeism continues to permeate education policy and practice. California and a majority of other states have incorporated “chronic absenteeism” as an accountability metric under the Every Student Succeeds Act. It is therefore a…