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Philip M. Gleason
Senior Fellow
Philip Gleason, a senior fellow at Mathematica, is an expert in evaluation design with extensive experience directing studies of education initiatives and federal nutrition programs.
Gleason directs an evaluation of KIPP (Knowledge is Power Program) for the KIPP Foundation and recently led a rigorous lottery-based experimental evaluation of charter schools for the U.S. Department of Education. He is also directing two studies of teacher effectiveness for the U.S. Department of Education—one is an evaluation of Teacher Residency Programs and the second involves an examination of the distribution of highly effective teachers in school districts around the country.
In recent years, he has played a key role in research examining administrative and nutrition-related aspects of the school meal programs, including the relationship between school meal participation and childhood obesity, the accuracy of certification for free and reduced-price school meals, and the dynamics of participation in the Food Stamp Program. He has also studied a variety of methodological and design issues, including conducting validation studies of regression discontinuity and comparison group designs, and has published a series of papers on statistical issues related to nutrition research.
Gleason is also on the board of editors of the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, and is currently serving on an Institute of Medicine Committee on the Adequacy of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Benefits. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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- Areas of Expertise
- Key Projects
- Professional Activities
- Publications
- Evaluation design and methodological issues
- Charter schools
- Federal nutrition programs
- Institute of Medicine Committee on Examination of the Adequacy of Food Resources and SNAP Allotments, January 2012
- Editorial board, Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
- Visiting Professor, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
- "Do Charter Schools Improve Student Achievement? Evidence from a National Randomized Study" (December 2011)
- "Using Lotteries to Evaluate Schools of Choice: Evidence from a National Study of Charter Schools." Economics of Education Review (July 2011)
- "Student Characteristics and Achievement in 22 KIPP Middle Schools" (June 2010)