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

agoodmanbacon OK, here it is, an informal set of suggestions about what to do if you have a DD with timing: t.co/UYGYBJkOoV If you compare time stamps on these tweets you'll see how "preliminary" this is. Will update! t.co/KV0WWsLbjs
4 days 20 hours ago.
profsimonb Teachers teach, but they also learn. Our NEW paper reports on a trial of teacher peer observation to raise teacher effectiveness. With @eric_s_taylor @shenilarawal Paper: t.co/jgFoIQoRBT Blog: t.co/9tmu6ICwbF (1/n)
4 days 19 hours ago.
MichaelPetrilli MUST LISTEN - FOR YOUR EVENING COMMUTE! The Education Gadfly Show has been on the air for almost 15 years (!) but we're proud to announce our first ever RESEARCH DEEP DIVE, on effective teachers, with Dan Goldhaber. 30 minutes of splendid wonkery. t.co/5fvsPBeZGu t.co/6ydUU45QmA
4 days 6 hours ago.
profsimonb @MatthewAKraft @eric_s_taylor @danielson_group It’s hard to know to what extent it’s: general busy-ness, organisational timetabling constraints, or hostility/nervousness of the process.
4 days 18 hours ago.
profsimonb @MatthewAKraft @eric_s_taylor @danielson_group I think all three likely involved. No/low stakes key, along with the structured rubric, and importantly that its peers not school leaders or outside experts
4 days 18 hours ago.
profsimonb @MatthewAKraft @eric_s_taylor Particularly if you’ve been teaching a long time, I think that you might pick up one or two key tips on how to do things slightly differently.
4 days 18 hours ago.
bhgreeley @jenniferdoleac Ok. I've thought about this a ton. I think the challenge for economists is that they're used to presenting their ideas defensively, to peers, in a way that prevents any possibility of bad-faith misinterpretation. 1/x
6 days 12 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.