Matthew A. Kraft

Bush-Obama School Reform: Lessons Learned

A Presentation at the American Enterprise Institute
What Will Teacher Raises Buy Students?

by Matthew Kraft, The New York Times
Matthew Kraft at Character Lab's Educator Summit

A Discussion About Teacher Effectiveness and the Workplace Environment
Coaching as a Professional Development Strategy

A Conversation with Jonathan Supovitz of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education

MatthewAKraft @akilbello Akil, great points about the failure of taking tutoring to scale under NCLB. Too often we forget/ignore the lessons of history. I hope that is not the case as districts & states increasingly look to adopt tutoring. Our full paper - feedback welcome: t.co/f9ebt4J6YZ
20 hours 27 min ago.
MrGmpls @dropoutnation @MatthewAKraft @akilbello We need to talk more about: t.co/5rv3edi33V The training is superb and implementation has been mastered. And it has lots of solid data backing it. I learned more from @MNReadingCorps about teaching reading than I did in my teacher training.
1 day 8 hours ago.
MatthewAKraft I want to take these classes with @pqblair! t.co/o7C9dfnzMg
20 hours 46 min ago.
ProfMartyWest Excited to share a new nationally representative survey of parents out today via @EducationNext. Conducted in late-November, it offers the most detailed picture to date of how U.S. students are being educated this year. A thread with a few highlights: 1/n t.co/GQRqv1ggyV
1 day 10 hours ago.
betsyjwolf Omg I love this study. Researchers try to figure out a way to present effect sizes to teachers in a way that they understand, and by doing so, we often make the problem worse. Few take-aways... t.co/SOLenIClvb
6 days 7 hours ago.
MatthewAKraft @WCastilloPhD @ChicagoEduc Not necessarily "high-dosage" but here is nice meta-analysis of mentoring Hagler et al. (2020). Non-specific versus targeted approaches to youth mentoring: A follow-up meta-analysis. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 49, 959–972 t.co/Gd2ZWcwGzs
4 days 23 hours ago.
MatthewAKraft @ChicagoEduc Kylie, so glad to hear the @AnnenbergInst EdResearch for Recovery briefs are helpful. Nate Schwartz & Co. have done an amazing job. The target release date for the High-Dosage Tutoring brief is Jan. 26th. I'll reach out to you directly w/ details now.🙂 t.co/5rK7Px2Y4E
4 days 23 hours ago.

Matthew Kraft is an Associate Professor of Education and Economics at Brown University. His research and teaching interests include the economics of education, education policy analysis, and applied quantitative methods for causal inference. His primary work focuses on efforts to improve educator and organizational effectiveness in K–12 urban public schools. He has published on topics including teacher coaching, teacher professional growth, teacher evaluation, teacher-parent communication, teacher layoffs, social and emotional skills, school working conditions, and extended learning time. Previously, he taught 8th grade English in Oakland USD and 9th grade humanities at Berkeley High School in California. He holds a doctorate in Quantitative Policy Analysis in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education as well as a master's in International Comparative Education and a B.A. in International Relations from Stanford University.