Megan Kuhfeld

Megan Kuhfeld

Megan Kuhfeld is a research scientist for the Collaborative for Student Growth at NWEA. Her research seeks to understand students’ trajectories of academic and social-emotional learning and the school and neighborhood influences that promote optimal growth. Dr. Kuhfeld completed a PhD in quantitative methods in education and a master’s degree in statistics from UCLA.

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Summer learning loss: What we know and what we’re learning

Concerns about students losing ground academically during summer break go back at least a century, with early evidence suggesting that summer contributed to large disparities in students’ outcomes.

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