Andrew Rice

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Andrew Rice
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder,
Education Analytics

Andrew Rice is chief executive officer of Education Analytics, a nonprofit data science and research organization in Madison, Wisconsin. He co-founded Education Analytics and previously served as chief operating officer, working with large urban school districts, labor organizations, national education organizations, and state and national education departments to support data analysis and policy. Rice is an expert in student growth metrics, including value-added models, student growth percentile models, and other methodologies for measuring and projecting student progress. Before co-founding Education Analytics, he worked at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University and the Value-Added Research Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Rice earned a PhD in economics from Pennsylvania State University.

updated 2025

Contributing topics
Supporting students’ social-emotional, mental & physical health
Understanding, measuring & improving student outcomes
Contributing initiatives
CORE-PACE Research Partnership
COVID-19 Recovery
Andrew Rice in the Media
: Can We Measure Classroom Supports for Social-Emotional Learning?
: Measuring Students’ Social-Emotional Learning Among California’s CORE Districts: An IRT Modeling Approach
Publications by Andrew Rice
Trends in Student Social-Emotional Learning
Evidence from the CORE Districts
This study examines how social-emotional skills develop from Grade 4 to Grade 12 and vary by gender, socioeconomic status, and race/ethnicity. Based on self-report student surveys administered to around 400,000 students in California, the study…
Measuring SEL May 2018
Measuring Students’ Social-Emotional Learning Among California’s CORE Districts
An IRT Modeling Approach
This study examines the properties of California's CORE Districts' SEL survey, which measures social-emotional learning in students. The survey was given to over 400,000 students in grades 3-12. The study uses both classical test theory and item…
SEL School Effects May 2018
School Effects on Social-Emotional Learning
Findings from the First Large-Scale Panel Survey of Students
This paper examines the use of social-emotional learning (SEL) measures to evaluate school-level growth in student outcomes. The study finds substantial differences across schools in SEL growth, suggesting that schools may contribute to students'…