Stuart S. Yeh

Stuart Yeh is Associate Professor of Evaluation Studies at the University of Minnesota. Over the past 19 years, he has pursued studies regarding the source of the achievement gap and promising strategies for addressing the gap. He has published numerous scholarly articles and three books, including a book-length evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of 22 approaches for raising student achievement.

Dr. Yeh has served as an invited expert at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). He previously served as Senior Research Associate at the Center for the Study of Testing, Evaluation, and Educational Policy at Boston College, where he worked on a national study of educational testing. He has evaluated Head Start literacy programs in the Dorchester, Jamaica Plain, and Allston-Brighton neighborhoods of Boston and evaluated critical thinking and analytical writing programs in East Palo Alto and San Jose, California. At the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation (MDRC), he worked on a randomized evaluation of high school career academy programs.

Dr. Yeh was awarded a B.A. in Economics and a Master of Public Policy degree at the University of Michigan, a Ph.D. in Evaluation Studies at Stanford University, and a Spencer post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University.