Dr. Matthew Kraft is an Associate Professor of Education and Economics at Brown University, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Research Fellow with IZA – Institute of Labor Economics, and an Invited Researcher at J-PAL North America. His primary work focuses on efforts to improve educator and organizational effectiveness in K-12 public schools. His scholarship examines efforts to improve teacher hiring, professional development, evaluation, and working conditions; the application of new approaches to interpreting effect sizes in education research; and the development of school-based tutoring and mentoring programs in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. He has published over 40 academic articles in leading education, economics, and public policy journals. His research has received over $5 million in total grant funding from a range of federal agencies and private foundations. His work has been cited over 12,000 times, and he is consistently ranked among the top 200 scholars on Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings.
Matt is regularly quoted and his research is frequently featured in national news outlets. He is the recipient of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Outstanding Public Communication Award, the Society for Educational Effectiveness Early Career Award, the William T. Grant Early Career Scholar Award, the Brown University Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Palmer O. Johnson Memorial Award for the most outstanding article across the seven flagship AERA journals, and the National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship. Matt holds a doctorate in Quantitative Policy Analysis in Education from Harvard University as well as an M.A. in International Comparative Education and a B.A. in International Relations from Stanford University. Previously, he taught middle and high school humanities in Oakland and Berkeley, CA public schools.
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Recent Papers
- Local Supply, Temporal Dynamics, and Unrealized Potential in Teacher Hiring
- The Effect of Teacher Evaluation on Achievement and Attainment: Evidence from statewide reforms
- School-Based Mentoring Relationships and Human Capital Formation.
- Second Time's the Charm? How Repeat Student-Teacher Matches Build Academic and Behavioral Skills
- Online Tutoring by College Volunteers: Experimental Evidence from a Pilot Program
- The Inequitable Effects of Teacher Layoffs: What We Know and Can Do
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Media Coverage
The Messy Reality of Personalized LearningARTICLE | by E. Tammy Kim. July 10, 2019. |
"How Much Should I Care?"BLOG POST | by Jeff Archer. March 16, 2019. |
Interpreting Effect Sizes in Eduation ResearchBLOG POST | by Matthew Di Carlo. March 12, 2019.
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How to interpret effect sizes in educationARTICLE | by C.J. Rauch. January 21, 2019. |