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 "Figuring this out is an emergency." @ProfEmilyOster Powerful take on what it will take to reopen schools: commitment, flexibility, realism and a focus on staff. Oh, and money, lots of it. t.co/7Jyz2HPxYn
2 days 21 hours ago.
rkelchen Happy July, everyone! Unfortunately, I'm convinced that this month will be one of the worst months that American higher education has experienced in a long time. Thread alert. (1/)
3 days 21 hours ago.
MatthewAKraft @bjfr @Larryferlazzo 💯 what Justin says. I'd also ask teachers who've experienced both traditional 5-day a week class schedules and block schedules with alternating days to get their take.
4 days 7 hours ago.
SarahCohodes Thanks again for all the feedback! I'll try to address a few questions that seemed to come up frequently here, unfortunately there are so many at this point I can't go through one by one. Hopefully in a shorter thread than before. 😉 t.co/f2K36oPmtG
4 days 8 hours ago.
MatthewAKraft **Why are we not talking more seriously about the need for universal access to free/affordable high-speed internet?** I'm not sure how we can even pretend that our public schools will provide equal educational opportunity to all kids this fall without it. t.co/ub1CZyk1WQ
4 days 15 hours ago.
MatthewAKraft Check out this important new initiative by @BrownUniversity @AnnenbergInst to provide clear, evidence-based, and actionable guidance on the key education challenges we face today. Much more to come from Susanna Loeb, Nate Schwartz & Co. t.co/Ze6kO0qMgJ
4 days 19 hours ago.
ASCD @MatthewAKraft’s recent study found that frequent interruptions to classroom teaching add up to a lot of lost instructional time: between 10 and 20 days over the course of a year. t.co/vAgb4n7umh t.co/emEQ5doxpT
4 days 20 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.