The latest report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office “affirms and adds more color to what we know,” said Matthew Kraft, an associate professor of education and economics at Brown University. The findings highlight strategies and lessons learned from the pandemic that can be integrated into in-person education practices moving forward.

Nari Kato shares his experience as a graduate student in the MAT program.

Professor Kenneth Wong contributed to a panel discussion hosted by the Boston Foundation that delved into characteristics of effective school committees within and across different governance structures (appointed, elected, hybrid).

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) has selected Professor Matthew Kraft as the recipient of the 2022 Outstanding Public Communication of Education Research Award.

Declining teacher retention rates within the Providence Public School District over the last three years since the state takeover and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic are not as drastic as what various news reports suggested during that time, according to a new study released Tuesday by Brown University’s Annenberg Institute.

Alexander Yates shares his experience as a graduate student in the Urban Education Policy program.

Brown University's Department of Education has partnered with AmeriCorps to offer a year-long, full-time volunteer service position. The team member will build capacity for projects that mobilize higher education to make a difference in the lives of individuals impacted by poverty.

Serena Ruiz, a sophomore concentrating in Ethnic Studies and Education Studies, was selected by the Mellon Mays Advisory Board to join the 30th cohort of Brown Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows (MMUF).

Professor Matthew Kraft argues that formative observation and feedback cycles could be more successful at driving instructional improvement if implemented outside of the high-stakes teacher evaluation process.

Meet Mamadou Fofana, MAT'22, a future social studies/history teacher who enjoys Rhode Island beaches, creating music, and drawing upon his undergraduate experience as an African American studies concentrator when at the front of the classroom.

Andrea Flores, Assistant Professor of Education, and her colleagues at Brown University and UConn have been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to address the impact of COVID-19 on first-generation college students and their families in the U.S.

As a growing number of state and federal authorities pledge to make high-quality tutoring available to struggling students, a new study co-authored by Professor Matthew Kraft demonstrates positive, if modest, results from an experimental pilot that launched last spring. 

Professors Jin Li and Yoko Yamamoto co-wrote a chapter for a newly released book that examines the experiences of internationally migrant families as they navigate the local schools in their new cultural context.

Professors Susanna Loeb, Matthew Kraft, Lindsay Page, and John Papay have been recognized by Education Week as being among the nation's 200 most impactful university-based scholars in education policy in 2021.

Brown scholars Jonathan Collins, Mahasan Chaney, and Lynne Joyrich on Critical Race Theory, the most divisive topic in American education.

On December 9, 2021, Professor Jonathan Collins participated in an expert discussion on the politics of education, hosted by the Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings.

Meet Ayana Bass, a Rhode Island native who joined the UEP program so that she could learn critical skills to make a long-term impact in advancing teacher diversity and educational equity.

Starting in 2009, the U.S. public education system undertook a massive effort to institute new high-stakes teacher evaluation systems. A new working paper examines the effects of these reforms on student achievement and attainment at a national scale by exploiting the staggered timing of implementation across states.

A study co-authored by Professor Susanna Loeb combines an analysis of national administrative data to describe the paraeducator labor market with a systematic review of collective bargaining agreements and other job-defining documents in ten case-study districts.

Lauren Zeffer MAT'22, a future biology teacher, shares what drew her to Brown University's program and what her experience has been like so far.

Since 1968, the National Academy of Public Administration has recognized outstanding contributions to the literature of public administration through the presentation of this prestigious award.

The Board of Overseers of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University established the permanent annual scholarship in 2012 for a UEP student who most epitomizes the former Brown University president’s commitment to educational equity and social justice.

On the Tennessee Voices podcast, Professor Andrea Flores discusses education as the front lines of belonging and her book, "The Succeeders: How Immigrant Youth are Transforming What It Means to Belong in America," which was written based on a decade of research and interviews she conducted in Nashville.

Brown Summer High School (BSHS) challenges students to think deeply about big questions. In this summer enrichment program, students pursue deep learning in up to three courses, choosing from classes in Math, English, Science, and Social Studies.

Chartered by US Congress to provide non-partisan expert advice, the Academy is an independent, non-profit, and non-partisan organization established in 1967 to assist government leaders in building more effective, efficient, accountable, and transparent organizations.

Brown University’s Department of Education seeks to hire a full-time lecturer with expertise in language acquisition, bilingual education, and/or teaching Multilingual Learners to join a faculty committed to addressing social equity issues within the context of urban schools.

Brown University’s Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative (NAISI) collaborates with a number of departments across the campus to offer fellowships to students pursuing Master’s degrees. NAISI is dedicated to increasing the understanding and maintenance of the cultural traditions and political experiences of Native American and Indigenous Peoples.

In this thought experiment, Professor Matthew Kraft and Grace Falken, a research program associate at the Annenberg Institute at Brown University, explore how to make access to individualized instruction and academic mentoring more equitable by taking tutoring to scale as a permanent feature of the U.S. public education system.

"The type of tutoring with evidence is intensive tutoring with a consistent tutor who comes with an understanding of the student's needs — based on data from direct assessments or from the school or teacher — and with curricular materials for addressing these needs," Professor Susanna Loeb tells NBC News.

Professor Kenneth Wong says it’s time to revisit the political implications of how the 1991 move to appointed school committee members in Boston overlooked marginalized groups.

The Research Partnership for Professional Learning (RPPL) launched a learning agenda and call to action to transform professional learning (PL) research and practice. The research team is led by experts in teacher learning and improvement at the Annenberg Institute at Brown University, including Education Professors Susanna Loeb and John Papay.

Due to the pandemic, school reopening has become one of the most important (and contentious) policy issues. Professor Jonathan Collins' recent working paper looks at public preferences reopening schools and public compliance with reopening orders during COVID-19.

A working paper co-authored by Professor John Papay presents findings from the first study to examine whether there are average differences between TPPs in terms of graduates’ average growth, rather than levels, in teaching effectiveness, and to consider which features predict this growth.

In a piece by the Papitto Opportunity Connection Foundation, Gario says that it was his commitment to sharing his knowledge and experience with BIPOC youth that led him to enroll in the Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program and the Urban Education Fellowship at Brown University.

In education settings, treatments are often non-randomly assigned to clusters, such as schools or classrooms, while outcomes are measured for students. This research design is called the clustered observational study (COS). In this working paper, Professor Lindsay Page and her co-authors examine the consequences of common support violations in the COS context.

In an opinion piece for EducationWeek, Susanna Loeb of Brown University and Heather C. Hill of the Harvard Graduate School of Education argue that keeping teachers in their current grades and subject assignments will be key to student success following an unusually disruptive year.

In this paper, Professor Matthew Kraft and his co-authors examine the challenges teachers faced while working from home at the start of the pandemic, between March and June 2020, and explore the role that working conditions played in supporting their sense of success in this new technology-dependent setting.

A paper co-authored by Professor Matthew Kraft finds that external classroom interruptions add up to 10 to 20 days of lost instructional time over an academic year, enough time to consider all Providence Public School District students truant or even chronically absent.

Professor Andrea Flores' first book is a powerful and challenging look at what “success” and belonging mean in America through the eyes of Latino high schoolers.

The National Association of Biology Teachers has presented David Upegui, adjunct lecturer in education at Brown University and Central Falls High School teacher, with the 2021 Outstanding Biology Teacher Award for Rhode Island.

In a new article published in the Peabody Journal of Education, Professor Jonathan Collins explores the effects of exposure to participatory and deliberative school board meetings.

Professor Jonathan Collins is part of a team that has been awarded a $2 million research grant from the Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences. The grant is to support the development of a new curricular module that will help kids learn civics through having virtual dialogues with members of Congress.

In the article "Emerging Victorious," Brown Alumni Magazine features seven exemplary students who received their bachelor's or advanced degrees in 2021. Despite having a final year at Brown so challenging that it’s literally one for the history books, they’ve created, achieved, and helped others. Among those students is Nari Kato '21, who earned his bachelor’s in education studies and is an MAT candidate this year.

In their article "Emerging Victorious," Brown Alumni Magazine features seven exemplary students who received their bachelor's or advanced degrees in 2021. Despite having a final year at Brown so challenging that it’s literally one for the history books, they’ve created, achieved, and helped others. Among those students is Sonya Brooks '21 AM, a graduate of Brown's Urban Education Policy Program.

To advance education equity and policy, the Class of 2021 graduate and newly named Fulbright scholar will spend a year as an English teaching assistant in the Netherlands.

Professor Matthew Kraft presented as part of an event titled "Teaching and the Teacher Workforce Amid the Struggles of COVID-19 and for Racial Justice" hosted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Professor Rangel will participate in a fellows program offered by Brown's Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA) this fall.

Brown University's Department of Education has partnered with AmeriCorps to offer a year-long, full-time volunteer service position. The team member will build capacity for projects that mobilize higher education to make a difference in the lives of individuals impacted by poverty.

Associate Professor Matthew Kraft was awarded the 2021 SREE Early Career Award, which recognizes early career scholars whose work has advanced rigorous research relevant to educational practice.

Learn about Generation Teach and Kyra Hu's experience during her time as a math teacher in Providence.