Information Access and Student Achievement Cassandra M.D. Hart in conversation with Peter Bergman
In this podcast, Peter Bergman and Cassandra M.D.
Hart discuss how access to timely,
actionable information about how students are performing in
school can help parents keep their kids on track.
In April, 2016, Bergman was a Center for Poverty Research
Visiting Scholar to present the seminar “Education for All?
Evidence from an Audit Study of Charter Schools.” Bergman is
an Assistant Professor of Economics and Education at Teachers
College, Columbia University. Bergman’s research uses randomized
controlled trials (RCTs) to find low-cost, scalable interventions
that improve education outcomes.
Cassandra Hart is associate professor of education policy. She
evaluates the effects of school, state and national education
programs, policies, and practices on overall student achievement,
and on the equality of student outcomes. Hart’s recent work
has focused on school choice programs, school accountability
policies, early childhood education policies, and effects on
students of exposure to demographically similar teachers.
She is also interested in the effects of virtual schooling on
student outcomes, both in K-12 and post-secondary settings.
