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 Lots of great data here on the public’s changing perceptions about the teaching profession. Check out this thread about @EducationNext’s new poll. t.co/PPDOLfr4mO
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MatthewAKraft Great thread - exemplifies why it is so hard to successfully scale promising programs in education. ⬇️ t.co/EeBYCS3OR3
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ispa_landa "Each academic institution needs leaders who will funnel resources into anti-racist and anti-sexist activity, including support for those who are willing to speak out about potential solutions to pressing social problems." Op-ed by Noelle Hurd and me: t.co/OYwvWhSWoj
5 days 19 hours ago.
MatthewAKraft Yes! So thrilled to work and learn with Jessalynn. t.co/Lm5knn11Wq
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ELmagazine Researchers @MatthewAKraft and @david_blazar examined what 60 studies showed about the efficacy of #coaching for strengthening teachers & lifting student achievement: t.co/fxA0sniALk #educoach t.co/DSJRklQOYp
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MatthewAKraft @elizwgreen @deborah_ball @Doug_Lemov “Many tchrs understandably turned their frustration w/ accountability into an argument for its opposite. They only way to get better teaching, they argued, was to leave tchrs alone. . Yet leaving tchrs alone was exactly what US schools had done for years, w/ no great success"p311
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MatthewAKraft @elizwgreen @deborah_ball @Doug_Lemov “In no other sector in this society would we think the way to supply . . . skillful work, would be to go find people, hope they do it well, leave them on their own to figure it out. We don’t do that with nursing, and we don’t do that with surgery.” Quoting @deborah_ball p.309 9/n
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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.