What works in education Don’t let perfection be the enemy of the good

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What works in education Don’t let perfection be the enemy of the good Grover (Russ) Whitehurst, Ph.D. Senior Fellow & The Herman and George Brown Chair Director of the Brown Center on Education Policy The Brookings Institution Washington, DC, USA

Impressive progress in use of RCTs in education The Value of Experiments in Education Grover J. Whitehurst, Education Finance and Policy Spring 2012, Vol.7, No.2: 107–123 Members log in to download full paper Studies meeting WWC evidence standards http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/detail?accno=EJ971069

Impressive yields from RCTs Accountability and Flexibility in Public Schools: Evidence from Boston's Charters and Pilots (with A. Abdulkadiroglu, S. Dynarski, T. Kane, and P. Pathak) The Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2011 http://economics.mit.edu/files/6335

Correlation can support causal inference: the logic of disconfirmation http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/reports/2012/2/brown-center/0216_brown_education_loveless.pdf

Correlation again TEACHER VALUE-ADDED AND STUDENT OUTCOMES IN ADULTHOOD Raj Chetty Harvard University John N. Friedman Harvard University Jonah E. Rockoff Columbia University http://obs.rc.fas.harvard.edu/chetty/value_added.html

Causal inference with “weak” methods http://obs.rc.fas.harvard.edu/chetty/value_added.html

Correlation and policy, again the-irreplaceables-understanding-the-real-retention-crisis. TNTP, 2012 http://tntp.org/assets/documents/TNTP_Irreplaceables_ExecSum_2012.pdf

Theory guided RCTs http://www.psy.cmu.edu/~siegler/Opfer_Siegler12.pdf

Theory guided RCTs Siegler, R. S.(2009). Improving the numerical understanding of children from low-income families. Child Development Perspectives, 3, 118-124. http://www.psy.cmu.edu/~siegler/sieg-cdper09.pdf