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Education Decision Makers Need More Timely, Actionable Data

CEPR Executive Director Jon Fullerton and Proving Ground Director Bi Vuong discuss the need to utilize short-term intermediate measures of success to effectively manage interventions within school districts in the Stanford Social Innovation Review...

What Data Will Show That Edtech ‘Works’?

How can school districts and charter management organizations utilize their data to measure how effective different educational software programs are at producing desired outcomes?

Don’t gamble with Massachusetts students’ future
CEPR Faculty Affiliate Heather Hill authored the following op ed in CommonWealth Magazine to inform the charter school debate in Massachusetts. ON NOVEMBER 8, Massachusetts voters will decide whether to lift the cap on charter schools, eliminating a major...

The cost of the charter school cap
CEPR Faculty Director Thomas Kane reviews the evidence pertaining to Massachusetts charter schools in the following CommonWealth magazine article. IN NOVEMBER, VOTERS in Massachusetts will decide whether to raise the cap on charter school enrollment. The...

Tech Tip: Using video to support teacher training programs
Each spring semester, the seniors in our student-teacher program complete the edTPA assessment. This performance-based test requires teacher candidates to submit an unedited video recording of them teaching a lesson in the classroom. The recording is part...

Research to Practice
Findings from the National Center for Research in Policy and Practice (NCRPP) survey, and how it can help education leaders and researchers create more of an impact, are discussed in the following HGSE Usable Knowledge blog post. Good news for education...

How to Get Better
The Best Foot Forward Toolkit, as well as its potential for helping teachers become better educators, is referenced in the following HGSE Usable Knowledge blog post. My friend in New York City teaches at a charter school. He tells me about his teaching...

Partnering in Education Research Program Accepting Applications
Learn more about the Partnering in Education Research (PIER) Program from the following HGSE article. The Partnering in Education Research (PIER) program is now accepting fellowship applications from first- and second-year doctoral candidates at Harvard...

For State Leadership, the Common Core Is a Boon
CEPR Faculty Director Thomas Kane shares findings from a recent report, Teaching Higher: Educators’ Perspectives on Common Core Implementation, in the following article by Education Week. Over the past few years, the Common Core State Standards have been...