For Immediate Release: October 23, 2024
Contact: communications@doe.virginia.gov
Todd.Reid@doe.virginia.gov
RICHMOND, VA – Today, the Virginia Board of Education will receive a briefing and join a discussion with the nation's leading expert on learning loss, Dr. Thomas Kane. Dr. Kane will provide insights from his widely referenced research to inform the development of approaches to support schools in their efforts to improve student achievement. Prioritizing investments in proven approaches to school improvement is a critical part of the newly approved Virginia School Performance and Support Framework.
Event Details - Virginia Board of Education Discussion with Dr. Thomas Kane:
Wednesday, October 23 at approximately 2:30 p.m.
Library of Virginia
Lecture Hall, First Floor
800 E. Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23219
The Board Meeting and discussion will also be broadcast online on the VDOE YouTube channel: Virginia Department of Education - YouTube.
Background:
Dr. Thomas Kane is an economist and Walter H. Gale Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is faculty director of the Center for Education Policy Research and is the co-author of the nation's first Education Recovery Scorecard, comparing learning loss and ensuing recovery at the district level across the country. Dr. Kane has been regularly featured in The New York Times, NPR, The Atlantic, The 74, CNN, AP News, and other major outlets covering his learning loss research and key findings.
Dr. Kane's work has spanned both K-12 and higher education and includes topics such as the design of school accountability systems, teacher recruitment and retention, financial aid for college, and pandemic learning. Between 2009-2012, he directed the Measures of Effective Teaching project for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. From 1995-1996, Dr. Kane served as the senior economist for labor, education, and welfare policy issues within President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers. From 1991 through 2000, he was a faculty member at the Kennedy School of Government. Dr. Kane has also been a professor of public policy at UCLA and has held visiting fellowships at the Brookings Institute and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
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