The Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching initiative, sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, was designed to build new, comprehensive systems of teacher evaluation and connect low-income minority students with quality educators in four pilot states. Despite years of effort and considerable resources, however, the initiative fell short.
In this edition of Research Minutes, we speak with the RAND Corporation’s Brian Stecher, who led a team of researchers from RAND and the American Institutes for Research in conducting a six-year evaluation of the Gates Foundation initiative. Their final report, published in June of 2018, found that while the initiative did bring some improvements to the host sites, it failed to make an impact on student achievement.
