Benjamin K. Master

Overview

Commentary

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  Lost Learning and the Costs of COVID-19

  President Biden's plan calls for $130 billion to help schools safely reopen and identifies summer school or other supports to help students compensate for lost learning time as permissible uses of this funding. Recent RAND research can shed light on how Congress might consider divvying up these funds to support students over the next year.

  Feb 10, 2021 The RAND Blog

Publications

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  COVID-19 Testing in K-12 Schools: Insights from Early Adopters

  Shares insights from early adopters of COVID-19 testing in K-12 schools and describes the characteristics of early adopter schools and districts, their varied approaches to testing, their implementation lessons, and their results to-date.

  Feb 4, 2021

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  Report

  Growing Teachers from Within: Implementation, Impact, and Cost of an Alternative Teacher Preparation Program in Three Urban School Districts

  The authors investigated implementation and costs of the Teacher Effectiveness and Certification (TEACh) initiative in three urban school districts, as well as the program's impact on teacher recruitment, job performance, and retention.

  Sep 29, 2020

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  Research Brief

  How Can Assistant Principals Be Trained as Instructional Leaders? Insights from the PLUS Program

  This research brief summarizes study findings of a school leadership program and offers three recommendations for school districts and school leadership training programs to consider as they strive to improve instructional leadership effectiveness.

  Jul 7, 2020

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  Pathways to Instructional Leadership: Implementation and Outcomes from a Job-Embedded School Leader Training Program

  The authors describe the initial implementation and impacts on staff and student outcomes of the Pathway to Leadership in Urban Schools program, which focused on newly hired school assistant principals, in one large urban district over four years.

  Jul 7, 2020

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  Effects of the Executive Development Program and Aligned Coaching for School Principals in Three U.S. States: Investing in Innovation Study Final Report

  In this report, part of a series on professional development for school principals, the authors analyze the effects of a professional development program and paired coaching for middle school principals in three states.

  Jul 1, 2020

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  Putting Professional Learning to Work: What Principals Do with Their Executive Development Program Learning

  This report presents findings from part of RAND's evaluation of the National Institute for School Leadership's Executive Development Program (EDP) for sitting school principals, focusing on how principals applied their EDP learning and coaching.

  Oct 7, 2019

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  Principal Pipelines: A Feasible, Affordable, and Effective Way for Districts to Improve Schools

  This report describes the implementation of The Wallace Foundation's Principal Pipeline Initiative and its effects on student achievement, other school outcomes, and principal retention.

  Apr 8, 2019

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  Preparing School Leaders for Success: Evaluation of New Leaders' Aspiring Principals Program, 2012–2017

  This report analyzes whether schools and students led by graduates of New Leaders‘ Aspiring Principals program outperformed comparison schools and students in the same district.

  Feb 25, 2019

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  Combining Entrepreneurship and Web Development for High School Students: A Pilot Evaluation of the Startup Tech Program and High School Students' College and Career Aspirations

  This pilot evaluation of Startup Tech assesses whether 12th-grade students experienced either improved self-efficacy or changes in their college and career plans during the year in which they were in the program.

  Jan 6, 2017

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  Journal Article

  Different Skills? Identifying Differentially Effective Teachers of English Language Learners

  Our findings lend support to the notion that general education teachers can develop valuable ELL-specific instructional skills.

  2012

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  Journal Article

  Teacher Workforce Developments: Recent Changes in Academic Competiveness and Job Satisfaction of New Teachers

  Policy makers and school leaders are perennially concerned with the capacity of the nation's public schools to recruit and retain highly skilled teachers.

  Jun 6, 2016

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  Improving Teaching Effectiveness: Access to Effective Teaching: The Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching Through 2013–2014

  This report attends to the distribution of effective teachers between low-income minority (LIM) and other students in Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching sites and what might explain changes in LIM students' access to effective teaching.

  Jun 6, 2016

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  Research Brief

  Trends in Access to Effective Teaching: The Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching Through 2013–2014

  This brief summarizes a RAND Corporation evaluation of the effectiveness of key reforms of the Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching for low-income minority students in three public school districts and a charter management organization.

  Jun 6, 2016

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  Journal Article

  Effective Instructional Time Use for School Leaders: Longitudinal Evidence from Observations of Principals

  This study examines the associations between leadership behaviors and student achievement gains using a unique data source: in-person, full-day observations of approximately 100 urban principals collected over 3 school years.

  2013

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  Staffing for Success: Linking Teacher Evaluation and School Personnel Management in Practice

  Using unique data from an independently managed public charter school district, I explore the extent to which autonomous school administrators' formative evaluations of teachers predict a variety of future personnel decisions.

  2014

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  Examining the Early Impacts of the Leading Educators Fellowship on Student Achievement and Teacher Retention

  Presents findings from preliminary analyses of the Leading Educators Fellowship program, which is dedicated to training promising mid-career educators to lead their colleagues in pursuit of student success.

  Aug 11, 2015