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SDP Provides New Findings on Teacher Placement and Retention Patterns

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First-Year Teachers Found To Be Assigned To Students Who Are Already Behind Academically Cambridge, MA. (July 18, 2012) – According to findings released today by researchers at the Strategic Data Project (SDP), first-year teachers tend to be assigned to...

Upcoming Event Focuses on College Going in Kentucky

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(Frankfort, KY) – On Monday, August 17, the Kentucky Department of Education, in partnership with the Strategic Data Project (an initiative of the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University), 55,000 Degrees, the Prichard Committee for...

New: The Response of Rural Districts to the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Given the major disruptions to students’ daily lives as well as the education field more generally caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, NCRERN was interested in learning how its partner districts navigated mandatory school closures and the shift to online...

Harvard’s Strategic Data Project Launches 2021-2022 Cohort for Postsecondary Career and Technical Education Fellowship

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Cambridge, MA (August 18, 2021)—The Strategic Data Project for Postsecondary Career and Technical Education (SDP-CTE), an initiative of the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University, announces their second cohort of SDP-ECMCF...

Using Multimodal Classroom Data to Measure Student Competencies for Upward Mobility

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Led by a leading scholar of classroom interaction and mathematics education and supported by established partnerships with districts and education technology firms, the project is positioned to produce scalable tools that help teachers identify and...

The Strategic Data Project Releases Extended Diagnostic Tool for Institutions Participating in the Postsecondary Data Partnership (PDP)

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To enable institutions to better understand patterns in their students’ outcomes and success, the Strategic Data Project (SDP), in collaboration with ResearchEd, has launched an extended Diagnostic toolkit to analyze PDP data. August 15, 2024 — As more...

'Not a partisan issue': As classroom culture wars rage, a stark warning about learning loss

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In the four years since schools were shuttered in an effort to protect students from the onset of COVID-19, public education has been placed under a microscope and turned into a major political talking point. Conservatives, led by political figures like...

Yidan Prize Foundation Council of Luminaries discuss latest innovations in education

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Global education leaders discussed new or emerging approaches, methods, and systems in education at the Yidan Prize Conference Series: Europe 2021 in partnership with University of Oxford 28 May 2021, London – The European session of The Yidan Prize...

SDP Announces New Executive Director

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Nicholas Morgan will be the new executive director of the Strategic Data Project (SDP) beginning August 1. He will bring a decade’s experience working in the education sector to strengthen management practices. Nick was most recently a managing director...

Stay in the Game! Member Districts Show Progress Keeping Students in School

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Proving Ground's work with the Stay in the Game! Attendance network is making a difference in Ohio. COLUMBUS, Ohio (Oct. 31, 2024) – Ohio faces a chronic absenteeism crisis. While the latest data shows progress, school districts in the Stay in the Game...

New Statistical Indicators Reveal College-Going Patterns for School Districts

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Cambridge, MA. (April 18, 2012) – According to findings released today by researchers at the Strategic Data Project (SDP), the gap in college enrollment rates between black students and white students in four large, urban districts disappears or even...

New States Leading States (SLS) Initiative Launches to Share Proven Strategies for State Policy Innovation

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A $10 million grant from the Walton Family Foundation will support this effort to spread the adoption of evidence-based state policies. (Cambridge, MA) The Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University is launching a new initiative...