This working paper compares teacher evaluation scores from a typical value-added model with results from the Colorado … Growth Model (CGM) and finds that use of the CGM in place of a value-added model depresses the evaluation scores for teachers …

This report documents the process of updating an existing microsimulation model and database designed to help … policymakers measure the effects of policy reforms to the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP). The updated model …), rather than the rules in effect when the data were collected (fiscal year 2009). The updated model includes additional …