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Joshua Haimson
Senior Researcher; Human Service Foundation Area Leader
Joshua Haimson, a senior researcher and the area leader for human service foundations, is an expert in designing and managing education and workforce evaluations, including those assessing program outcomes, impacts, and implementation.
Haimson has helped design and lead education and workforce studies focused on many topics including college and career readiness, dropout prevention, charter schools, extended learning time, summer learning programs, and special education.
For the National Longitudinal Transition Study 2012 Haimson is leading the analysis of challenges faced by students with disabilities as they complete and leave high school, drawing on surveys of a nationally representative sample of youth, parents, teachers, and principals. He directed the National Study of Charter Management Organization (CMO) Effectiveness, a study sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates and Walton foundations which evaluated the impact of CMOs on student achievement and identified promising CMO practices associated with positive impacts. He also directed a study of dropout recovery programs, helped develop alternative designs for a study of extended learning time, and led an analysis of the relationship between academic and non-academic competencies and students’ postsecondary outcomes.
Haimson, who has written chapters for two books on career-focused education programs, holds a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University.
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- Areas of Expertise
- Key Projects
- Professional Activities
- Publications
- Designing and managing evaluations
- Assessing program outcomes, impacts, and implementation
- Interventions designed to enhance college and career readiness
- Dropout prevention, charter schools, and special education
- Regional Education Laboratory Peer Review
- National Longitudinal Transition Study 2012
- Use of State Student Assessments in Random Control Trials
- National Study of Charter Management Organization Effectiveness
- Evaluation of the Knowledge Is Power Program
- Presented "CMO Impacts on Student Achievement and Promising Practices." American Evaluation Association, November 2011
- "Learning from Charter School Management Organizations: Strategies for Student Behavior and Teacher Coaching" (March 2012)
- "Charter-School Management Organizations: Diverse Strategies and Diverse Student Impacts" (January 2012)
- "Variability in Pretest-Posttest Correlation Coefficients by Student Achievement Level" (September 2011)