VARC News

The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post profile the work of the Value-Added Research Center on the New York City teacher rankings which were released in February 2012.

The Value Added Research Center is working with Minnesota educators to identify great teachers and how they got to be that way. Read the article at MinnPost.com.

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Recent VARC Publications

VARC: Value-Added Research

CURRENT PROJECTS

LOCATION PROJECTS
Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta Public Schools Value-Added Project
John Keltz
Minnesota, North and South Dakota Bush Foundation Teacher Effectiveness Initiative
Mikhail Pyatigorsky
National Center for Educator Compensation Reform
Chris Thorn
Milwaukee Wisconsin Center for Value-Added Research at Milwaukee Public Schools
Bradley Carl
Chicago Illinois Chicago Value-Added Project
Steve Ponisciak
Tampa/St. Petersburg Florida Empowering Effective Teachers: Hillsborough County Public Schools
Nandita Gawade
Milwaukee Wisconsin Evaluating After-School Programs in MPS
Curtis Jones
Milwaukee Wisconsin Evaluating Leadership Development and Career Path Programs
Anthony Milanowski
Milwaukee Wisconsin Evaluation of Programs and Services that Address Transitions to and from High School
Curtis Jones
Dallas Texas, Broward County, Florida IES Effective Schools Project
Chris Thorn
Milwaukee Wisconsin IRIS: Creating an Integrated Resource Information System to Assess Student, Teacher, Classroom, and School Effects on Value-Added Student Learning Gains and to Support More Cost-Effective Budgeting
Jeff Watson
New York New York City Teacher Data Initiative
Michael Christian

Racine Wisconsin

Racine Unified School District Measures of Academic Progress Value-Added Demonstration Project
Ernie Morgan
Milwaukee Wisconsin Redesign of Employee Evaluation in Milwaukee Public Schools
Anthony Milanowski
Wisconsin SAGE Program Evaluation
Ernie Morgan and Penny Clark
Milwaukee (metro) Wisconsin School Quality in Public and Private Schools in Wisconsin
Ernie Morgan and Lisa Geraghty
Milwaukee Wisconsin Special Education Literacy Evaluation in Milwaukee Public Schools
Rachel Lander
Tulsa, Oklahoma Tulsa Public Schools Value-Added Project
John Keltz
National Value-Added Models and Accountability: Next Steps
Emin Dokumaci
Wisconsin Wisconsin Statewide Value-Added Project
Brad Carl

COMPLETED PROJECTS

LOCATION PROJECTS
Milwaukee Wisconsin Accountability and Performance in Secondary Education in the Milwaukee Public Schools
Bradley Carl
Madison Wisconsin Developing a Value-Added System with the Madison Metropolitan School District
Michael Christian
Milwaukee Wisconsin Milwaukee Classroom Value-Added Initiative: Professional Development and Value-Added Model of Quarterly Benchmark Assessments
Ernie Morgan
Milwaukee Wisconsin Milwaukee Public School Charter School/High School Evaluation
Lisa Geraghty
Milwaukee Wisconsin Milwaukee Public School Improvement Planning
Sara Kraemer and Lisa Geraghty
Milwaukee Wisconsin Qualitative, Quantitative and IQ2 Studies for the Student Achievement Guarantee in Education (SAGE) Program Evaluation
Ernie Morgan and Penny Clark
Milwaukee Wisconsin Reading Evaluation -- Study of the Literacy Coach: Read 180
Rachel Lander
Wisconsin Value-Added and Growth Model Demonstration Project
Ernie Morgan