Unmasked: What the Pandemic Taught Us About America's Schools
Date & Time: March 25th, 2026 @ 11:30 AM
Location: TBD
Join political scientist and education policy expert Michael Hartney for a revealing examination of what the COVID-19 pandemic exposed about America's public schools in his talk, Unmasked: What the Pandemic Taught Us About America's Schools. As an associate professor at Boston College, Bruni Family Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, and author of influential research on school reopenings, teacher unions, and pandemic-era education politics—including groundbreaking studies showing how partisanship and interest groups shaped decisions more than science—Hartney draws on rigorous data and analysis to unpack the lasting lessons from school closures, learning loss, and institutional responses.
