2011

The Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University today announced five new partners for the Strategic Data Project (SDP). Albuquerque Public Schools, Denver Public Schools, Los Angeles Unified School District, The School District of...

Researchers from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, MIT and the University of Michigan have released the results of a new study that suggests that urban charter schools in Massachusetts have large positive effects on student achievement at both the...

The CEPR study on the Boston Teacher Residency is featured in the following EdWeek article. Math teachers trained through the Boston Teacher Residency program are, on average, initially less effective at raising student scores in that subject than other...

Teachers are the most important school-level factor in student success—but as any parent knows, all teachers are not created equal. Reforms to the current quite cursory teacher evaluation system, if done well, have the potential to remove the worst...

SDP Data Fellows Richard Bowman and Sade Bonilla’s work on the value-added model being used for the teacher evaluation system in Albuquerque Public Schools is highlighted in the two articles “Pilot Program to Test Merit Pay for Teachers” and “Mixed...

It can be a lonely journey, learning to become a better teacher. “Imagine that you were getting essentially no feedback on the work you were doing. And now imagine that you had one of the most important jobs in the world. No, I’m not talking about...