Matthew A. Kraft

email: mkraft@brown.edu | twitter: @MatthewAKraft

Bush-Obama School Reform: Lessons Learned

A Presentation at the American Enterprise Institute
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

Short Bio

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.