Andrew McEachin

Andrew McEachin
Andrew McEachin
Senior Research Director for Policy Research,
ETS Research Institute

Andrew McEachin is senior research director for policy research at the ETS Research Institute. He previously served as vice president of research and policy partnerships at NWEA, a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation, and a professor of policy analysis at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Earlier in his career, he was an assistant professor of educational policy analysis and program evaluation at North Carolina State University and an Institute of Education Sciences postdoctoral fellow at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education. His research focuses on using advanced quantitative methods to study achievement gaps and evaluate the impact of policies such as standards-based accountability, school choice initiatives, and teacher labor markets. McEachin earned his MA in economics and PhD in education policy from the University of Southern California .

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Publications by Andrew McEachin
The Academic Performance Index (API) is the centerpiece of California’s state assessment and accountability system. With the recent passage of SB 1458 and the pending reauthorization of both state and federal accountability legislation, there is now…
California’s Quality Education Investment Act
In a new PACE Working Paper, Margaret Bridges and Bruce Fuller from the University of California, Berkeley; Andrew McEachin and Icela Pelayo, from University of Southern California; and Neal Finkelstein from WestEd, San Francisco worked together to…