To determine how the strategy of replacing principals affected student achievement in D.C. Public Schools, the Walton Family Foundation contracted with Mathematica Policy Research. The resulting study is the first to examine the impact of such a strategy on student achievement.

To determine how the strategy of replacing principals affected student achievement in D.C. Public Schools, the Walton Family Foundation contracted with Mathematica Policy Research. The resulting study is the first to examine the impact of such a strategy on student achievement.

This report describes the value-added models that were used to estimate measures of teacher and principal effectiveness in Charleston County School District for the 2013-2014 school year. These measures are combined with other measures in the district’s multi-dimensional BRIDGE evaluation...

The purpose of this project was to produce a list of databases that could be used to track the use of preventive services among privately insured individuals following the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.

What is sample attrition, why does it matter, and how does it factor into study ratings in the Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness (HomVEE) review? This new brief from the HomVEE team gives an overview of the issues related to attrition and how it can affect evaluation findings.

This report presents our examination of impacts of principals trained by New Leaders on student achievement in Oakland Unified School District (OUSD). For the last 10 years, New Leaders has partnered with OUSD in efforts to improve the recruitment and training of effective principals and school...

Public administrators have always been interested in identifying cost-effective strategies for managing their programs. As government agencies invest in data warehouses and business intelligence capabilities, it becomes feasible to employ analytic techniques used more-commonly in the private...