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Martin West

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    Martin West is an assistant professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, deputy director of Harvard’s Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University, and an executive editor of Education Next. West’s research examines the politics of K-12 education policy in the United States and the effectiveness of alternative reform strategies in improving student achievement and non-cognitive skills. His most recent book (co-edited with Joshua Dunn), From Schoolhouse to Courthouse: The Judiciary’s Role in American Education (Brookings Institution Press), looks at the increase in judicial involvement in education policymaking over the past 50 years. Before joining the Harvard faculty, West taught at Brown University and was a research fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution. He is a founding board member of Rhode Island Mayoral Academies and lives with his wife, Grace, and son, Quinn, in Newton, MA.


Articles

The Persuadable Public

The 2009 Education Next-PEPG Survey asks if information changes minds about school reform.

Fall 2009 / Vol. 9, No. 4


The 2009 Education Next-PEPG Survey

Complete Results

Fall 2009 / Vol. 9, No. 4


Credits Crunched

Arizona rulings hit scholarships and special education vouchers

Fall 2009 / Vol. 9, No. 4


Public Support for Increased Spending on Schools and Teacher Salaries Declines

Education researchers William G. Howell of the University of Chicago and Martin R. West of Brown University have released newly compiled evidence from the 2008 Education Next/PEPG survey


School Choice International

Higher private school share boosts national test scores

Winter 2009 / Vol. 9, No. 1


The 2008 Education Next-PEPG Survey of Public Opinion

Americans think less of their schools than of their police departments and post offices

Fall 2008 / Vol. 8, No. 4


Is the Price Right?

Probing American’s knowledge of school spending

Summer 2008 / Vol. 8, No. 3


No Choice in Milwaukee!?!

Remarkable finding by an un-credible study

Spring 2008 / Vol. 8, No. 2


What Americans Think about Their Schools

The 2007 Education Next—PEPG Survey

Fall 2007 / Vol. 7, No. 4


Is Your Child’s School Effective?

Don’t rely on NCLB to tell you

Fall 2006 / Vol. 6, No. 4


Crowd Control

Does reducing class size work?

Summer 2003 / Vol. 3, No. 3


Tough Love

The value of high grading standards

Spring 2004 / Vol. 4, No. 2


Gray Lady Wheezing

The AFT hoodwinks the Times

Winter 2005 / Vol. 5, No. 1


School Reform Economics

Inequality in America: What Role for Human Capital Policies? by JAMES J. HECKMAN AND ALAN B. KRUEGER, EDITED by BENJAMIN M. FRIEDMAN

Spring 2005 / Vol. 4, No. 2


Strike Phobia

School boards need to drive a harder bargain

Summer 2006 / Vol. 6, No. 3


Blog Posts/Multimedia

Cash Incentives for AP Scores Yield Long-Term Benefits

In the Fall 2008 issue of Education Next, economist C. Kirabo Jackson reported that the Advanced Placement Incentive Program boosted AP participation rates in participating schools, the share of students receiving solid SAT or ACT scores, and the share of students going on to post-secondary education. The results were no doubt encouraging, but they left unanswered questions as to what would happen to students after they had enrolled in college. A follow-up study now available in the NBER Working Paper series puts these concerns to rest.

02/16/2010

International Benchmarking

Video: Mark Schneider talks with Education Next about the limits to what we can learn from international tests.

10/02/2009

The Lost Art of Book Reviewing: Editors Defend School Money Trials

The academic book review is a lost art. In days gone by, one could count on fellow scholars to lay out the books’ argument, skewer it, then identify a laundry list of factual errors that demonstrate the author was careless or worse.

09/16/2009

Which Students Graduate from College?

Video: Matthew Chingos, an author of Crossing the Finish Line, talks with Education Next about which factors best predict whether students will graduate from college. High school grades and AP test scores are stronger predictors than SAT or ACT scores, this new study finds.

09/09/2009

Swaying Public Opinion

Video: Martin West talks with Education Next about what it takes to change public opinion about reforms like charter schools.

08/31/2009

Alternate Route Principals Not So Bad After All, New York Times Admits

A new NYU study finds that schools assigned new elementary and secondary principals trained by the Aspiring Principals Program of the New York City Leadership Academy outperformed other city schools with new principals who came through traditional routes in English Language Arts, and matched their performance in math.

08/27/2009

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