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By Thomas Wei, Evaluation Team Leader, NCEE NOTE: In an effort to turn around the nation’s chronically low-performing schools, the Department of Education injected more than $6 billion into the federal...
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By Elizabeth Warner, Team Leader for Teacher Evaluations, NCEE These days, people want answers to their questions faster than ever, and education research and evaluation is no exception. In an ideal...
View ArticleWhy We Still Can Learn from Evaluations that Find No Effects
By Thomas Wei, Evaluation Team Leader As researchers, we take little pleasure when the programs and policies we study do not find positive effects on student outcomes. But as J.K. Rowling, author of...
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