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1 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

2 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

3 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

4 Correlation can support causal inference: the logic of disconfirmation

5 Correlation again TEACHER VALUE-ADDED AND STUDENT OUTCOMES IN ADULTHOOD Raj Chetty Harvard University   John N. Friedman Harvard University   Jonah E. Rockoff Columbia University

6 Causal inference with “weak” methods

7 Correlation and policy, again
the-irreplaceables-understanding-the-real-retention-crisis. TNTP, 2012

8 Theory guided RCTs

9 Theory guided RCTs Siegler, R. S.(2009). Improving the numerical understanding of children from low-income families. Child Development Perspectives, 3,

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