The DC IMPACT Study Results : Already Obsolete

October 20, 2013

In October 2013, researchers Thomas Dee of Stanford University and James Wyckoff of the University of Virginia published (or by someone was somehow made public) a working paper on limited aspects of the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) teacher evaluation system, IMPACT, which was introduced in 2009– during the time that Michelle Rhee was chancellor of DC schools.

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In this post, I would like to examine some details regarding what the Dee and Wyckoff working paper offers– and what it does not.

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