2011

The Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard and the Strategic Data Project select five new education agencies to focus on using data to transform policy making The Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University today announced...

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...

National Center for Teacher Effectiveness (NCTE) leaders Heather Hill and Corinne Herlihy emphasize the importance of focusing on the quality of teaching, and not "teacher quality," in the following article published in the Education Outlook Series by the...

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...

CEPR Faculty Director Thomas Kane discusses teacher effectiveness in the following Harvard Gazette article. 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...