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

EdPolicyWorks We're hiring! Our Director @jhwyckoff is seeking a new @IESResearch postdoc to collaborate on K-12 teacher labor market research, and research practice partnerships to improve teacher quality. t.co/bVbfy5U6wr
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AmySchwartzNY Thinking about a PhD in Public Policy? I'm looking for a few good students. Apply! DM if you're interested/have questions..
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MatthewAKraft Illuminating deep dive into the intersection of popular school rating website @GreatSchools, how we measure school quality, and school/neighborhood segregation. t.co/iwXHw6oj7C
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Susan_M_Johnson Great to see HGSE colleagues, alums & students at my Where Teachers Thrive book talk.Thanks to Monica Higgins, Jill Harrison Berg, and John Papay for their responses & to Matt Kraft for live tweeting. Good, not great, video. See Matt's tweets for slides: t.co/X0OFOyreIq? t.co/LOqYxOvfYV
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tstewart_hgse More impressive still, @OliviaLChi & @ProfMartyWest somehow made research & evidence accessible to us @HarvardEdLD students who enter thinking P-value is measure of tire pressure or something. Joking aside, she’s model of type of academic we need to bridge practice/research gap. t.co/Zg2m8UGhJM
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AndrewDeanHo @MatthewAKraft @BrownUniversity @AnnenbergInst @hgse @KathleenNLynch @DrJingLiu @OliviaLChi @J_HumanResource In addition to this excellent research, @OliviaLChi was a rock-star teaching fellow for my stats class, #s52stats. I remember her going to the whiteboard in a TF meeting and explaining parameter interpretations in a 2x2 design so clearly that I now teach it her way in my lectures
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MatthewAKraft @BrownUniversity @AnnenbergInst @hgse @KathleenNLynch @DrJingLiu @OliviaLChi @J_HumanResource @OliviaLChi Website: t.co/FE2yKOIkd5 JMP: "A Classroom Observer Like Me: The Effect of Demographic Congruence Between Teachers and Raters on Observation Scores" t.co/eGtwY9rCF6 t.co/rblxszbtyR

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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.