Jun 3, 2024
School enrollment during COVID-19
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In this episode, Micah Baum describes how public school enrollments in the US changed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In this episode, we cover:
• [00:00] Introduction
• [00:54] Micah Baum, an economist at the University of Michigan,
introduces school districts’ three modes of learning in fall 2020:
virtual, in-person, and hybrid.
• [01:31] Baum explains the reasons for studying public school
enrollment changes between the 2019-2020 school year and the
2020-2021 school year.
• [02:51] Description of the data sources used in the
study.
• [03:50] Explanation of the changes in enrollment numbers between
the two school years.
• [06:00] Explanation of racial differences in enrollment
changes.
• [06:46] Exploration of what these results suggest about parent
choices.
• [08:24] Implications for school funding in future years.
• [09:18] Caveats and limitations of the study.
• [09:51] Conclusion.
About Our Guest:
Micah Baum
PhD Student
University of Michigan
View related content here: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2307308120
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