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Matthew M. Chingos

    Author Website: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~chingos/


    Author Bio:
    Matthew Chingos is a fellow in the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution and a postdoctoral fellow at the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University. His current research examines teacher labor markets, class-size reduction policies, citizen perceptions of school quality, and the college choices of low-income students. Chingos studies education politics, economics, and policy at both the K–12 and postsecondary levels. His first book, Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at America’s Public Universities, coauthored with William G. Bowen and Michael S. McPherson, was published by Princeton University Press in September 2009. Chingos received a B.A. in Government and Economics and a Ph.D. in Government, both from Harvard University.


Articles

Grading Schools

Can citizens tell a good school when they see one?

Fall 2010 / Vol. 10, No. 4


For-Profit and Nonprofit Management in Philadelphia Schools

What kind of management does better than the district-run schools?

Spring 2009 / Vol. 9, No. 2


Blog Posts/Multimedia

Reviewing the Evidence on Class Size

There is little doubt that reducing class size can boost student achievement in some circumstances. What is much less certain is how much of a difference class-size policies can make, and whether the impacts are large enough to justify the costs of hiring additional teachers and building new classrooms.

06/22/2011

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