HGSE Program Partners with States to Evaluate, Identify Effective Education Policies

The States Leading States initiative — a Harvard Graduate School of Education program that aims to identify effective schooling policies by analyzing state education programs — announced its first cohort of partner states last month.

The group includes Alabama, Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Texas. Data analysts with the SLS program will work with local government officials across all nine states to evaluate a range of education policies, from summer reading and math camps in Alabama to literacy programs for elementary students in Colorado.

“What we are hoping to do with this project is support state leadership, but also support learning about what’s actually working with state policy,” said Scott E. Sargrad, the senior director of the SLS initiative, which is housed under the Center for Education Policy Research at HGSE.

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