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Matthew M. Chingos

Author Website: http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/experts/chingosm

Author Bio:
Matthew M. Chingos is a fellow in the Brookings Institution’s Brown Center on Education Policy. He has written extensively on class-size reduction, teacher quality, and college graduation rates. Chingos’s 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 2009. Chingos received a B.A. in Government and Economics and a Ph.D. in Government, both from Harvard University.

Articles

The Impact of School Vouchers on College Enrollment

African Americans benefited the most

SUMMER 2013 / VOL. 13, NO. 3

Online Learning in Higher Education

Study finds that students enrolled in a large “hybrid” course learned as much as students in a traditional course, at substantial cost savings

Spring 2013 / Vol. 13, No. 2

Questioning the Quality of Virtual Schools

NEPC report uses flawed measures

SPRING 2013 / VOL. 13, NO. 2

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

Does Expanding School Choice Increase Segregation?

The findings reported here indicate that it is unlikely that charter schools—a prominent effort to increase school choice, especially for students from disadvantaged backgrounds—are making the problem worse.

05/16/2013

U.S. Institute of Education Sciences Weighs In on Voucher Impacts on College Enrollment

The What Works Clearinghouse declared the voucher study to be “a well-implemented randomized controlled trial.”

05/14/2013

Accepting Class Size Increases in Order to Sustain Wiser Investments

Are smaller classes worth the cost, relative to the alternative of a salary increase?

01/30/2013

Critique of Study of Voucher Impact on College Enrollment Misguided

Several of the issues raised by Goldrick-Rab have no merit and none undermine the primary conclusion of our study.

09/13/2012

Poor Students Can’t Afford Teacher Strike

The public should not tolerate damage to the education of disadvantaged students resulting from a strike over disagreements about teachers’ salaries, benefits, job security, and method of evaluation.

09/10/2012

Choosing Blindly

How can we tolerate ignorance on something that is as critical to student learning as instructional materials?

05/17/2012

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