Robert Shand

Robert D. Shand is an Associate Professor of Education Policy and Leadership at American University and Scholar-in-Residence at CPRL. His research focuses on teacher improvement through collaboration and professional development and how schools and teachers use data from economic evaluation and accountability systems to make decisions and improve over time. Current projects including collaborations with CPRL studying how teachers adapt to new curricula and how curriculum implementation relates to student learning outcomes, mixed methods investigations of school-community partnerships, and a study of mid-career school leader mentoring programs. He is a co-author of the third edition of Economic Evaluation in Education: Cost-Effectiveness and Benefit-Cost Analysis, and his work has been published in outlets including Urban Education, the American Journal of Evaluation, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, and the Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, among several other outlets. He received his Ph.D. in Economics and Education from Teachers College, Columbia University and began his career as a middle and high school social studies teacher in New York City.