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

hgse Today, in an initiative led by HGSE's @laschifter12, @AspenInstitute launches @K12ClimateAct, a commission aiming to help schools implement climate solutions, educate students to confront environmental challenges, and craft policy ideas for schools. t.co/HOGMZTGXYG
17 hours 25 min ago.
MatthewAKraft @KiraboJackson Right, definitely selection issues about which schools reopened and which students within schools returned and took tests. School FE models help a bit for school-level selection but bounds would be nice, especially for student-level selection and questions about external valid.
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MatthewAKraft Important evidence from Flanders on how much student achievement ⬇️& inequality ⬆️during pandemic. tl;dr A LOT. "We find that inequality both within and across schools increased in 2020" Note: I'd posit these are effects of COVID-19 AND school closures given time series design. t.co/4UUiGKPFyk
21 hours 40 min ago.
bjfr A new metaanalysis of tutoring studies from @JPAL_NA ... tutoring works: t.co/RRlFX1BLXJ t.co/GrcEZIC7ae

1 day 13 hours ago.
KatharineStrunk We are hiring @MSUCollegeofEd for an Assistant Prof of Ed Policy! We seek applicants who utilize qualitative or mixed methodological approaches to address policy implementation questions. Reach out to me or to @Rebec_Jacobsen (search chairs) w/ questions! t.co/SusnN8MPhF t.co/Brs3SMxUwH
2 days 1 hour ago.
DaveEvansPhD "Parent-Child Information Frictions and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from a Field Experiment" by @peterbergman_ Open access version: t.co/6tDFTP6T9P t.co/y992uiZlnJ
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causalinf Causal Inference: The Mixtape (Yale University Press) in technicolor. Release date January 26, 2021, for a measly thirty bucks. Think of it as causal inference for the price of two one month subscriptions to the family Spotify plans if that helps. t.co/XDadZBtGbi
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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.