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

KiraboJackson "School Effects on Socio-emotional Development" is now forthcoming at AER: Insights. @AEAjournals t.co/PrWSJI8YGA
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DrDorindaCA Thanks @educationweek for giving me and @DrShaunHarper space to share some guidance for leaders writing statements on police shootings of unarmed Black people. t.co/QKqu3QCzZ3 @MSUCollegeofEd
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ElizabethSetren JOB OPENING: Want to do research in education policy and economics? I’m hiring a full-time pre-doctoral scholar at NBER to join me in studying a historic school integration program. t.co/ABRTm0mmrq… @econ_ra @SadieCollective
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mpolikoff As the school year wraps up, check out our new brief on what we can do to stem summer learning losses due to COVID-19. t.co/OW6T0I2jhW t.co/skzG0hYLvJ
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MatthewAKraft As a privileged white parent, I cannot fathom what it must be like for black families to have to prepare their kids for the reality that their lives are at risk from the very people sworn to protect us. I stand committed to working for change. 2/2
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MatthewAKraft Last night we talked with our young children about George Floyd, structural racism, and the legacy of violence against blacks in our country. The injustice is so obvious to kids. 1/2
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MatthewAKraft Heather Hill & Susanna Loeb offer six concrete recommendations for how schools can address COVID learning loss this fall. t.co/LmrX67UcH5
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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.