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National Board Certification and Teacher Effectiveness in Los Angeles
Evidence from a new random assignment experiment in Los Angeles elementary schools finds students assigned to teachers rated highly by the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards outperform students in comparison classrooms. More »

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  • In his recent book The Age of Turbulence, Alan Greenspan discusses PPIE Faculty Director Thomas Kane's paper "Identifying Effective Teachers Using Performance on the Job." More »

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T he Project for Policy Innovation in Education, a unique partnership among districts, states, foundations, and university-based researchers, is designed to leverage the overwhelming amount of newly available school-, teacher-, and student-level data to address previously intractible policy questions in education. Read More »