2017

Harvard Ed Magazine highlights Proving Ground's emphasis on short cycle research. As more and more districts of all sizes started collecting data to evaluate what programs and interventions were working for their students and which weren’t, it became...

The following announcement by the Ohio Department of Education outlines its collaboration with Proving Ground, as they work together to address chronic absenteeism. The Ohio Department of Education has collaborated with Proving Ground, an initiative of...

Proving Ground Director Bi Vuong is quoted in this Education Week article that focuses on the importance of education parternships. "In terms of [research] infrastructure investment, Massachusetts, for example, started with a higher baseline, but it still...

Former Cohort 7 Fellow and current SDP Supervisor, Michael LaMont, helps Atlanta Public School teachers obtain and use data to better understand and leverage their students. He has helped introduce new teacher dashboards which offers information for...

CEPR's report on the impact of Newark's education reforms is examined in the following article by USA Today. In September 2010, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg went on The Oprah Winfrey Show, along with then-Newark Mayor Cory Booker and New Jersey Gov...

Chalkbeat education reporter Matt Barnum describes findings from CEPR's latest report on Newark education reforms. BY MATT BARNUM It was announced with much fanfare on Oprah in 2010: dramatic changes were coming to Newark’s schools, financed with $100...

Findings from CEPR's study of the Newark education reforms are featured in Education Week. By Sarah D. Sparks In its first five years, closing schools and shifting students to higher-performing district and charter schools did more to boost Newark, N.J.'s...

In the first independent evaluation using student-level data of Newark's education reform efforts, researchers find net gains in student achievement growth despite initial declines. Cambridge, MA (October 16, 2017)— Researchers at Harvard University’s...

Strategic Data Project Fellow Alum George Anagnostou received a Distinguished Service Award from the Ohio Association of School Business Officials, outlined in the following cleveland.com article. STRONGSVILLE, Ohio - George Anagnostou, Treasurer at...

The Strategic Data Project's research on teacher effectiveness in the Wake County Public School System is referenced in the following The News & Observer article. By the time most Wake County students return to class in August, a fifth of their teachers...