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Prashant Loyalka

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Prashant Loyalka

Associate Professor

loyalka@stanford.edu

http://fsi.stanford.edu/people/prashant_loyalka/

Assistant: Elayne Weissler-Martello

Biography

Prashant Loyalka is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Education and a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. His research focuses on examining/addressing inequalities in the education of children and youth and on understanding/improving the quality of education received by children and youth in multiple countries including China, India, Russia, and the United States. He also conducts large-scale evaluations of educational programs and policies that seek to improve student outcomes.

Other Titles

Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education
Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Program Affiliations

Race, Inequality, and Language in Education (RILE)
SHIPS (PhD): International Comparative Education
(MA) ICE/IEPA

Research Interests

Assessment, testing and measurement | Diversity and Identity | Higher Education | Immigrants and Immigration | International and Comparative Education | Poverty and Inequality | Teachers and Teaching

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Recent Publications

Fairlie, R., & Loyalka, P. (2020). Schooling and Covid-19: lessons from recent research on EdTech. NPJ Science of Learning, 5(1), 13.

Loyalka, P., Popova, A., Li, G., & Shi, Z. (2019). Does Teacher Training Actually Work? Evidence from a Large-Scale Randomized Evaluation of a National Teacher Training Program. AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS, 11(3), 128–54.

Loyalka, P., Sylvia, S., Liu, C., Chu, J., & Shi, Y. (2019). Pay by Design: Teacher Performance Pay Design and the Distribution of Student Achievement. JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS, 37(3), 621–62.

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