David Lang

David Lang
David Lang
Doctoral Student,
Stanford University

David Lang is a doctoral student in the Economics of Education program and an IES fellow at Stanford University. He graduated from UCLA in 2008 with bachelor's degrees in economics and in actuarial mathematics, and holds a master's degree from Stanford in management science and engineering. Prior to his doctoral studies, Lang worked for five years as a research analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. His research interests include higher education, online education, and quantitative methods in education research.

Contributing topics
Understanding, measuring & improving student outcomes
Contributing initiatives
COVID-19 Recovery
David Lang in the Media
: Has the COVID-19 Crisis Affected Reading Development?
: Stanford Paper: Pandemic Impacts Reading Fluency Development
Publications by David Lang
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Changing Patterns of Growth in Oral Reading Fluency During the COVID-19 Pandemic
We use data from oral reading fluency (ORF) assessments to examine COVID-19’s effects on children’s ORF in over 100 U.S. school districts. Students’ development of ORF largely stopped in spring 2020 following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. In…