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Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]

Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, 2020.

Ottawa : Statistics Canada = Statistique Canada, 2020

New York : Routledge, 2008

London ; New York : Routledge, 2008

Cambridge, Mass. : National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020

London ; New York : Routledge, 2008

The Educator Impact Laboratory is a center at Mathematica designed to expand our collaborations with state and local education agencies around the challenging task of measuring the impact that teachers and principals have on their students and using this information in creative ways to improve outcomes.

The Every Student Succeeds Act presents a challenge and an opportunity. It changes the question from “what do we have to do?” to “what new opportunities exist?” as states can now design their accountability systems to accomplish their own goals rather than complying with federal demands.

In a recent post on the Brookings Brown Center Chalkboard, Helen Ladd urges states to experiment with replacing test-based accountability with school inspections, visits by trained experts who rate the schools they visit and then issue reports.

Guided by the recent Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), states are scrambling to incorporate nonacademic skills into school measurement systems, raising the question: “What measures should schools use and for which purpose?”

Alex Resch, Mathematica's associate director, Human Services Research, counters the claims in a new book, which argues that algorithms and mathematical models are destructive and harm society’s most vulnerable members.

Principals have almost as much of an impact on student achievement as teachers do. Indeed, we found in a study of school reform in Washington, D.C., that replacing ineffective principals improves student achievement. But how do we distinguish good principals from bad ones?

The academic achievement gap in the United States is large. A low-income child has less than a 1 in 10 chance of graduating from college, compared to nearly 8 in 10 high-income children.

National Teacher Day honors teachers for the lasting contributions they make to students’ lives.

Does high-stakes evaluation scare teachers away? And if so, which teachers? Does this help or harm students? High-stakes evaluation does affect who comes into the classroom and who stays there, and research indicates that this flux may actually be good for students.

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